The AI industry’s top bullshit artists are swearing that your job will get replaced by AI this year. We’ve seen this before.
It has become a very regular cycle in the news. The AI industry’s top bullshit artists descend upon the media to tell them that AI is replacing everyone’s jobs by the end of the year, the gullible media laps it up like its gospel and publishes the obvious AI hype, the promises fail to come to fruition for obvious reasons by the end of the year, then in the new year, the AI industry’s top bullshit artists descend upon the media to say this year is different and the cycle repeats from there.
We’ve seen this cycle as far back as 2023 and repeat in 2024 and 2025. This despite the countless examples of AI being a complete and total failure. Those examples we’ve documented include lawyers getting in trouble for fake AI inserted citations in legal briefs, the CNET scandal, the Gannet Scandal, bad “journalism” predictions, fake news stories, more fake stories, Google recommending people eating rocks, the 15% success rate story, bad chess tactics, the Chicago Sun-Times scandal, a Canadian team submitting fake legal citations in their legal briefs, other attorneys submitting fake citation filled legal documents, the 91% failure rate story, AI deleting user data, the lawyer who got fined $10,000 over a bogus AI written legal brief, AI killing workplace productivity with workslop, AI having an 81% failure rate in summarizing news content, AI Overview giving out bad health advice, AI only being able to successfully complete 2.5% of commission work successfully at best, AI slowing software development down by 19%, AI hallucinating in even more court documents, AI being bad at poker, AI slop flooding the scientific community, AI causing a surge in medical mistakes, and AI causing the Amazon outage by deleting the code environment.
Of course, the media has conveniently, by and large, zapped all of this history down the memory hole after being dazzled by the AI industry’s bullshit artists claims that AI is getting better (it’s not). While AI failures are continuing to stack up with little to no signs of improvement, that isn’t stopping the industry from, once again, fooling the gullible media. Today, we are seeing the all too familiar claims emerging that huge swaths of the economy is going to get replaced by AI (a claim that should have been laughed out of the room). Sadly, the mainstream media seems more determined than ever to win as many “fell for it again” awards. One of those claims that was published came from Futurism:
During our planet’s latest and seemingly interminable revolution around the Sun, the tech industry’s obsession with AI soared to ever more implausible heights. CEOs began openly gloating about replacing their underlings with AI “agents.” The phenomenon of so-called AI psychosis became a national news story as more people were seemingly driven over the edge by their silver-tongued chatbot companions. “Slop” took on a new meaning. And the word “circular” suddenly started being used a whole lot in the same sentence as “billions of dollars” or even “hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Will 2026 finally deliver us from this endless cavalcade of large language model madness? Not likely, according to computer scientist and “godfather” of AI Geoffrey Hinton. AI will only continue to improve next year, he predicts, reaching a point where it will liberate us from all our horrible low-paying jobs.
“I think we’re going to see AI get even better,” Hinton said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “It’s already extremely good. We’re going to see it having the capabilities to replace many, many jobs. It’s already able to replace jobs in call centers, but it’s going to be able to replace many other jobs.”
Can someone alert Futurism and tell the journalists there I have a bridge to sell them? Of course, it wasn’t just Futurism that was falling for the worst and most obvious hype these days. CNBC also fell for it as well:
More than 50% of enterprises’ current software could be replaced by AI, the CEO of Mistral AI told CNBC on Wednesday, potentially adding to investor concerns over software stocks.
The comments by Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, come after a sell-off in major software names that was sparked in part by Anthropic’s Cowork product as investors grow increasingly worried that AI can do more of what current enterprise software does.
Investors fear AI could eat into so-called software as a service, or SaaS, business models. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF, which counts names such as Microsoft and Salesforce among its top holdings, is down more than 20% this year. In India, major software stocks like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys have also fallen.
“I would say more than half of what’s currently being bought by IT in terms of SaaS is going to shift to AI,” Mensch told CNBC at the India Accelerates event on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India.
“AI is making us able to develop software at the speed of light,” Mensch added
This is CNBC broadcasting on loudspeaker that they are complete and total idiots because they fell for this again.
Then there’s Business Insider who laughably fell for it as well:
A top Anthropic engineer said a new generation of AI agents capable of operating computers will reshape nearly every internet-based job in America.
And he said the change is coming very soon.
A top Anthropic engineer said a new generation of AI agents capable of operating computers will reshape nearly every internet-based job in America.
And he said the change is coming very soon.
Boris Cherny — the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, the company best known for its Claude chatbot — recently appeared on “Lenny’s Podcast,” hosted by Lenny Rachitsky.
He said AI systems that can take action across workplace computer tools — like the ones Anthropic sells access to — are advancing rapidly and could soon alter responsibilities for software engineers, product managers, designers, and other knowledge workers.
“It’s going to expand to pretty much any kind of work that you can do on a computer,” Cherny said. “In the meantime, it’s going to be very disruptive. It’s going to be painful for a lot of people.”
Cherny recently said in an interview with Y Combinator’s “Lightcone” podcast that the job title software engineer will start to “go away” in 2026.
Congratulations to Business Insider, CNBC, and Futurism. All three of you have each won our award for your amazing coverage.
I can’t believe I have to say this again, but AI is not replacing your job. Company management out there might try, believing the AI hype, but are only going to get burned like so many of our above examples. What is especially annoying, however, is how the media keeps falling for these lies every single freaking year. The journalists that write these stories and the editors that approve them seriously need to be slapped. How many times are they going to fall for the exact same lies before they finally learn? They already fell for it three years running and now they are falling for these lies a fourth year in a row. When will they ever learn?
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