{"id":95137,"date":"2025-04-17T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95137"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:27:40","slug":"how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025-zao-sanders-other-items-re-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/04\/17\/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025-zao-sanders-other-items-re-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025&#8221; [Zao-Sanders] + other items re: AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/04\/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hbr.org by Marc Zao-Sanders<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/04\/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2025\/03\/Apr25_09_AndreaUcini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2025\/03\/W250310_SANDERS_AI_USES_TOP_10_USES_360-850x1957.png\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneurondaily.com\/p\/here-s-why-you-shouldn-t-let-ai-run-your-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Here&#8217;s why you shouldn&#8217;t let AI run your company<\/strong>&#8230;<\/a> &#8212; from theneurondaily.com by Grant Harvey; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>emphasis DSC<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>When \u201cvibe-coding\u201d goes wrong\u2026 or, a parable in why you shouldn\u2019t \u201cvibe\u201d your entire company.<\/strong><br \/>\nCursor, an AI-powered coding tool that many developers love-to-hate,\u00a0<em>face-planted spectacularly<\/em>\u00a0yesterday when its own AI support bot went off-script and\u00a0fabricated a company policy, leading to a complete user revolt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s the short version: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bug locked Cursor users out when switching devices.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of human help, Cursor\u2019s AI support bot confidently told users this was a new policy (it wasn\u2019t).<\/li>\n<li>No human checked the replies\u2014big mistake.<\/li>\n<li>The fake news spread, and devs canceled subscriptions en masse.<\/li>\n<li>A Reddit thread about it got mysteriously nuked, fueling suspicion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reality? Just a bug, plus a bot hallucination\u2026 doing\u00a0<em>maximum<\/em>\u00a0damage.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Why it matters:<\/b>\u00a0This is what we\u2019d call \u201c<i>vibe-companying<\/i>\u201d\u2014blindly trusting AI with critical functions without human oversight.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Think about it like this: this was JUST a startup. If more big corporations continue to lay off entire departments, replaced by AI, these already byzantine companies will become increasingly more opaque, unaccountable systems where\u00a0<i>no one<\/i>, human or AI, fully understands what\u2019s happening or who&#8217;s responsible.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Our take?<\/b>\u00a0<i>Kafka dude has it right.\u00a0<\/i><strong>We need to pay attention to WHAT we\u2019re actually automating. Because automating more bureaucracy at scale, with agents we increasingly don\u2019t understand or don\u2019t double check, can potentially make companies\u00a0<i>less<\/i>\u00a0intelligent\u2014and harder to fix when things inevitably go wrong.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025 &#8212; from hbr.org by Marc Zao-Sanders . . Here&#8217;s why you shouldn&#8217;t let AI run your company&#8230; &#8212; from theneurondaily.com by Grant Harvey; emphasis DSC When \u201cvibe-coding\u201d goes wrong\u2026 or, a parable in why you shouldn\u2019t \u201cvibe\u201d your entire company. 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