This was a problem at my last job. Boss kept suggesting shoving AI into features, and I kept pointing out we could make the features better with less effort using simple heuristics in a few lines of code, and skip adding AI altogether.

So much of it nowadays is like the blockchain craze, trying to use it as a solution for every problem until it sticks.

▲ andrekandre a day ago | parent [-]

  > Boss kept suggesting shoving AI into features, and I kept pointing out we could make the features better with less effort using simple heuristics in a few lines of code

depending on what it is, it would probably also cost less money (no paying for token usage), use less electricity and be more reliable (less probabilistic, more deterministic), and easier to maintain (just fix the bug in the code vs prompt/input spelunking) as well.

there are definitely useful applications for end user features, but a lot of this is ordered from on-high top-down and product managers need to appease them...

	▲	zdragnar a day ago \| parent [-]
		... And the people at the top are only asking for it because it sounds really good to investors and shareholders. "Powered by AI" sounds way fancier and harder to replace than "power by simple string searches and other heuristics"