Generative AI is an Engineering Disaster

Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai...

"AI does not have to be built this way. Traditionally, the goal of AI was to solve problems in ways that simulated human mental processes. Researchers observed their own thinking and tried to implement their mental habits in code. This approach has mostly been abandoned, partly due to the difficulty of discerning and articulating the rules of human thought, but it did have the benefit of consuming far fewer resources and data."

And it didn't work.