Ford AI fiasco:

[applegrove]

I’m starting to think A.I. might not, in fact, live up to the hype 🤯

— Prof Gavin Yamey (@gavinyamey.bsky.social) 2026-06-28T17:43:53.148Z

[RockRaven]

1. So the executives who dictated that dumbshit AI policy, predictably failing & costing billions, have been canned, right?

Right?

:crickets:

[struggle4progress]

3. We can't get rid of the ruling class!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. No, they got bonuses for buying AI and firing workers.

Now they'll get more bonuses for hiring experienced engineers. Hopefully paying a nice premium over their former pay.

[struggle4progress]

2. "We don't need real intelligence. We'll just use simulated intelligence! What could go wrong?"

[RandomNumbers]

5. L - O - fucking L. "didn't pay as much attention ...." didn't start with AI

AI just makes it rampantly worse.

Big corporations have been dissing and dismissing their most experienced* engineers for a long time.

* "most experienced" usually means "oldest", i.e. at least over 45. Hello age discrimination.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. A prime example of mgmt rushing to embrace new tech, thinking that it'll fix all, do all. Figures that they screwed up

big time. They should have known this, any decent guy in the cusp of dealing w/ IT, knowledge-based systems/etc. would have known this already.

[Aussie105]

7. Whatever the question, AI isn't the answer.

Just wondering whereabouts people lost faith in human intelligence and experience, and want to handball anything complicated to AI.

The opportunity to do blame shifting?

'AI made me do it, don't blame me!'
'I was told AI was infallible!'

Sit back and let the machine do the driving?
(Looking at you, Tesla.)