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So, ever notice how AI’s just zooming through tech land like it’s got turbo boosters? But some folks are out there, waving red flags like, “Hey, maybe slow down a bit, huh?” Take this company Builder.ai. It’s like a textbook case of, “What on earth happened here?”
Honestly, AI landed in the treasure chest these last few years. I mean, look at NVIDIA—$3 trillion plus! Like, seriously? And then you’ve got folks trying to catch some of that gold dust, like Builder.ai, playing the “Look, we’re all AI!” card. Funny thing is, sometimes it turns out to be more “smoke and mirrors” than “gee-whiz” tech. Here’s the scoop:
Let’s paint a picture: Builder.ai gets all geared up with an offer that sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick. They had this app thing called Natasha, supposed to be all AI magic and no humans needed. Well, surprise! Turns out it was more like 700 tech-savvy folks in India doing the hard grind. I guess the “neural network” wasn’t so neural after all. Weird how these things unfold, right?
So, Builder.ai wooed Microsoft—$445 million kind of wooed—and was like, “Our super AI will build apps in no time!” Bam, they hit unicorn status. But, yeah, newsflash: their unicorn magic came from human hands. Who’d have guessed?
They had this nifty image of an app-building wonderland, where your voice turns into code, like magic! (Spoiler: it wasn’t magic, unless you call 700 engineers a magic trick.)
Anyway, all this jazz about Natasha rewriting the coder rulebook was just a bit, uh, exaggerated. Now they’re in hot water with both US and UK folks investigating, and what do you know—they declared bankruptcy. So much for the hype, huh?
This isn’t me saying AI’s all bunk—far from it! It’s just, sometimes we get too excited chasing the shiny new thing and forget to check what’s really under the hood. So, next time you hear the words “AI revolution,” maybe, just maybe, give it a side-eye. Because sometimes the revolution’s just a little less robo and more, well, human.
