The AI industry is moving faster than any technology wave we’ve seen in the last 40 years.
But the speed is not the real problem.
The real problem...
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The AI industry isn’t suffering from a lack of innovation. It’s suffering from a lack of honesty.
Really
Can you truly name one single piece of tech built in the last decade that was presented to you Hosnestly? The iPhone was supposed to save the world and solve income inequality and hunger.
It’s become a poison that I cannot stop imbibing.
You’ve raised a powerful point, and honestly, I feel this tension too.
Almost every major technology of the last decade arrived wrapped in utopian marketing: “This will fix society, connect humanity, democratize opportunity…”
But at the same time, I think the answer isn’t to abandon innovation, it’s to push for a more honest, grounded kind of innovation.
Jaideep, that sounds wonderful.... It truly does. Have you ever met the people who become marketers? The business school students who get into sales and marketing? You meet them and talk to them for five minutes and you quickly understand that this person would sell a child into slavery if the price was right.
E l on M u s k is one example.
He was performatively intelligent for two decades and we made him a trillionaire for it. Some people still think of him as someone who has accomplished great feats and not another highly successful con-man.
Across tech, there are people who prioritise hype, manipulation, or theatrics over real work. But at the same time, there are also builders, researchers, and founders who genuinely want to create something meaningful and long-term. I’ve had the chance to meet both kinds throughout my journey.
For me, the lesson has always been this:
We can’t control the motives of the loudest personalities in the industry, but the only thing that we can control is the integrity we bring to our own work.
Really, I thought the Galaxy Fold was supposed to do that. 🤔
Spot on. The hype around AI hides how messy the real production work is — guardrails, costs, edge cases, manual fixes. The honesty you’re calling for is exactly what the industry needs so people can make better decisions.
Absolutely, and I really appreciate you saying this.
The gap between AI hype and AI reality is where most frustration (and bad decisions) happen.
The gap between flashy demos and real-world deployment is huge, and not enough people talk about it. Benchmarks don’t reflect production, guardrails and human-in-the-loop work get hidden, and costs/latency become the real bottlenecks. Radical honesty would save teams a lot of wasted effort and help developers make grounded decisions. Appreciate the clarity here.
True Walter Green. This is exactly the part the industry still struggles to acknowledge. The gap between showmanship and shipping is massive, and most of the real work happens in the places that never make it into keynote demos:
unpredictable model behaviour
endless edge-case handling
If we talked about these realities openly, fewer teams would waste months chasing a “demo dream” that doesn’t survive contact with production.
The truth problem is not specific to the AI industry. It applies to all the places of work, and society.
In some cases, yes its true. We are chasing the hype only instead of creating long term sustainable solutions.
Sound like your article is written by AI ....
I appreciate you sharing that perspective. I use AI as a thinking partner in my workflow, but every idea, structure, and insight in my articles comes from my own experience and understanding of the space.
I think ALL of this stuff is marketing. People are chasing followings now and sometimes we need to throw a little razzle dazzle on that reality to feed the beast. Even developers are realizing the power of having a following and AI content seems to be the flavor of the year.
It’s nice to see the AI coming for our jobs line starting to lose some steam and instead seeing a little more useful marketing content out there though.
The sooner this blows up in our faces, the better.
Schools are now teaching kids with A.I. and Prager U.
If they have their way, our kids will be a generation of confused fascists.
Which is a step down from head the head empty fascists of gen Z whose mental peak is tit for tat and ignorance or Millennials whose fascists were experts in bending language to commit acts of evil whilst seeing themselves as a force for “responsibility”.