07/08/2025

It Turns out, AI Sucks at Your Job

LinkedIn is the latest company to dial back its AI expectations

The cracks in the artificial intelligence (AI) renaissance are really starting to show this summer, no?

I’m gonna throw a few links at you. Click if you want. Or don’t. They’re not mine. They’re just there to show that I couldn’t possibly make this stuff up.

• Earlier in June, Anthropic mothballed Claude Explains, their human-meets-AI blog that never found its footing. Apparently, no one wanted to read human-edited AI slop.
• Then right after that, Ramp announced that maybe corporations were kinda, sorta rolling back their grand AI spending plans. Maybe? They’re squishy about it. But that post does take the time to mention the Klarna AI-first support hiccup. Apparently, no one wanted their problems “solved” by AI.
• Then towards the end of June, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky wanted you to know that its AI writing assistant uptake was… underwhelming, because apparently, no one wanted their public reputation as a business leader left to the whims of some data scientist.

Oh! Here's a link I want you to click: I just wrote about why you shouldn’t be AI’s editor.

But, I mean, wow. Cruel summer, eh?

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