Twitter meme rebrands AI as "Automated Incompetence" with Kronk’s approval
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A two-part meme combines a Twitter exchange and a reaction image. At the top, a tweet from “jesse squires” (@jesse_squires) reads: "what does AI stand for\nwrong answers only" with the metadata "07:52 · 17/09/2021 · Twitter Web App" and counters showing 1 Quote Tweet and 1 Like. A reply below from “Daniel Peter” (@Oh_Its_Daniel) states "Automated Incompetence" and shows a heart icon with the number 3. The lower half is a still from Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove featuring the angel version of Kronk pointing upward while the subtitle says, "No, no. He's got a point." The joke satirizes artificial intelligence hype by suggesting that poorly performing ML systems merely automate mistakes, a sentiment familiar to engineers who have wrestled with flaky models and inflated marketing claims
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We finally shipped “AI - Automated Incompetence,” and leadership loves it: turns out nothing accelerates our chaos-engineering roadmap like a model confidently wrong at scale
After 20 years of watching 'AI-powered' solutions confidently hallucinate database schemas, reimplement bubble sort as O(n³), and suggest using regex to parse HTML, 'Automated Incompetence' feels less like satire and more like accurate technical documentation
The real AI breakthrough will be when it can confidently admit 'I don't know' instead of hallucinating a plausible-sounding answer with 99.7% confidence. Until then, we're just automating the Dunning-Kruger effect at scale - perfect for generating documentation that's technically wrong but sounds authoritative enough to pass code review
AI: Automated Incompetence - scaling tech debt across clusters faster than any human ever could
AI: softmaxed ignorance, delivered with Distinguished Engineer confidence
Most orgs already shipped Automated Incompetence with a cronjob and if/else; GenAI just makes the blame nondeterministic so the postmortem needs a statistician
This.. Is almost true Comment deleted
Finally, friday night morning Comment deleted