this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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Your thoughts are very similar to mine. The usefulness of machine learning to bridge the gap between the endlessly messy real world and the strictly regimented digital one can't be overstated, but throwing all your problems into an LLM chatbot is never going to yield good results. Case in point is the AlphaFold project which used AI to basically solve one of the hardest problems in modern biochemistry. They didn't do it by asking ChatGPT to "please fold this protein for me" they did it by assembling a multi-disciplinary team with a deep technical understanding of the problem and building a fully custom machine learning system which was designed from the ground up for the sole purpose of predicting protein structures. That's applied AI. All these so-called AI startups who's product is basically a coat of paint and a custom system prompt on the ChatGPT API are nothing more than app developers chasing the latest trend.
Incidentally, I had a very similar experience to your "Exchange Server / Exchange Online" problem. I was asked to make updates to an old VBS code base, and VBS is a language that I have neither experience with nor interest in learning, so I was using a chatbot to try and save a few minutes on some super simple beginner level questions. It kept confidently spitting out answers for VBA code, which is similar to, but very much not the same as VBS.
What I get from this is that Microsoft is absolutely terrible at naming products. Even a human will get confused about Exchange Online and Exchange Server being two different products. So it's no wonder the LLM can't handle it either.
For fucks sake, they even renamed the Remote Desktop app to "Windows App", have fun finding any help for that one.
This.
We have a brilliant data scientist in our team who spent the last 6 months creating and improving a ML model that's now very accurate and efficient.
Of course, our company went all in on GenAI and hired a full team in a few months. Those scammers are still trying to find a way to ~~make themselves useful~~ justify their inflated salaries, so of course, being so high on their own farts, they decided they had a genius idea that nobody had before and spent a few weeks trying to vibe-code a similar model without even asking around if it has already been done. And when presented with the facts, they doubled down on "yeah but if we can access EVERYTHING, we can make the model explainable!!1!". Ah yes, the part that's already been developed and tested and going in production like, right now.
What's depressing is that AI IS EVERYTHING so they basically became the most powerful entity in the company almost instantly, and we can't do anything to prevent them wreaking havoc in all the teams roadmaps at once constantly with impossible and extremely urgent demands because they answer directly to the CFO.
Thank you for providing a clear example how not all AI is LLM slop.
The AI hype has become so stifling that I can certainly understand the knee-jerk reaction that many are having, but at the end of the day it's just math. It's a tool which, like all tools, can be used for good or bad. If you're interested, I'd highly recommend looking into the story of AlphaFold. You can find some really good long form articles that have been written about it. It's not only a truly impressive technical achievement, but also one of the few technological breakthroughs in recent memory that is (at least as far as I can tell) truly, indisputably, good for humanity.
Some of them adding an addendum sentence works: "Not VBA, VBS". Works for other items they confuse/autocorrect, not sure for coding.