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Replacing Humans with AI is Going Horribly Wrong

2025-09-30 Science & Technology
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AI Implementation: Current Failures, Bubble Risks, and Future Potential

Discover why 95% of AI business pilots fail to generate measurable profits and whether the current technological boom is heading toward a major market crash comparable to the Dotcom era.

Short Summary

  • Ninety-five percent of implemented AI pilots show no measurable profit and loss impact, signaling widespread implementation failure.
  • The core architectural limitation of modern systems—hallucinations—forces costly manual verification by existing staff.
  • Highly successful AI adoption often relies on purchasing specialized vendor tools rather than developing custom internal solutions.
  • The current fervor around AI mirrors the speculative environment preceding the Dotcom bubble burst.

This episode dissects the functional reality of consumer generative AI in the business world. We explore high-profile execution failures at companies like Taco Bell and analyze research showing most implementations stall without delivering value. Ultimately, we assess if the massive capital investment currently flowing into AI is sustainable until fundamental architectural problems are solved.

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Go to https://brilliant.org/coldfusion for 20% off the premium subscription, which grants you unlimited daily access to everything on Brilliant. AI is a technology that divides people's opinions when we talk about its impacts. On the one had, AI has been disruptive to certain roles of employment. On the other hand, companies who have rushed to implement AI have found themselves regretting it. In this episode we get to the bottom of how AI is being used in the business world. Watch or listen to ColdFusion on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YEwCKoRz8fEDqheXB6UJ1 Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cavjbsmufe42UwPWBJAZFnuIcML58SZR1I8g1CugCYA/edit?usp=drivesdk ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide

Top Comments (10)

@titan2984 2025-09-30

AI can never replace me.....I'm unemployed 😎🤘 Edit: gg guys, I'm employed now. Hope AI doesn't come for my ass 😭🙏

11.5k 245 replies
@the_one_andrei 2025-09-30

AI isn't there yet. Most companies just saw it as an excuse to cut jobs and boost short time profits with long time pains.

6.4k 79 replies
@eXanova 2025-10-01

Don't fire your gardener because you got a brand new shovel...

5.4k 45 replies
@literallykevin 2025-09-30

Seeing your face was EVERYTHING. You have no idea how awesome that was dude. Been following for years. So refreshing.

4.6k 80 replies
@velocirapture89 2025-09-30

I'm a software developer. The idea of replacing developers with AI is laughable. Yes, we DO use AI to help us be more productive. However, this stuff is not "intelligent". It's just a really powerful guessing engine. You need people who know what they are doing to control it.

3.6k 171 replies
@KingMoon110 2025-09-30

A calculator that get things wrong 15% of the time is still a bad calculator, no matter how impressive it is - The same goes for AI

2.6k 31 replies
@tylerreeves3844 2025-09-30

Imagine having a calculus level problem sitting in front of a mathematician and then firing that mathematician and saying “we don’t need them anymore because we have TI-89 calculators that can do their job”. This is what’s happening in the corporate world right now

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@Flo-Cos 2025-09-30

Companies who profit from AI are those who sell AI to other companies that "want" to use AI.

1.0k 16 replies
@crowe668 2025-11-25

Us normal folks have been saying all this AI crap was a bad idea from the get go. Greedy companies putting people out of work are learning a huge lesson...

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@OmarFW 2025-10-29

There's never been a more obvious bubble. Tech CEOs are not motivated by discovering new legitimately useful technology. They're just trying to make line go up. Impressing some old boomer oligarch investors doesn't require tech that is legitimately useful; only party tricks and marketing hype.

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