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What HN saysHN commenters bring it up in discussions of the WordPress dispute and AI's disappointing return on investment, with a bitter tone toward Matt Mullenweg.
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paxiongmap · 2026-06-02
I'd probably characterise it as more as "AI doesn't have the massively transformational ROI that all the AI salespeople said it would and now I have to pay for my tokens and the humans I though I could replace at the same time". The idea AI would be running whole companies below some weird godlike CEO who won because they were clever just pushed an attractive narrative for the investor class.
I am very bullish on AI as a tool, but not as a way to completely restructure the economy overnight. Doing things is hard, and better tools don't make fundamental problems about change go away.
I read this today which really resonated and is relevant: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence
throw16180339 · 2024-10-10
> There’s still something entertaining to this for sure, but it also hurts so much. Wordpress used to be a respectable project, Automattic a respectable company and Matt a respectable person. Maybe it was too good to last.
This was a mask off moment, but he's always been like this. He had a similar blow up in February when he harassed trans users on Tumblr (https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-transphobia-matt-mullenweg) (https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/told_you_so).