You're fired, AI can do the job — oh, please come back

I once programmed a nutrition calculator, it took incredible amount of research skills, judgment, and cultural culinary understanding for nutritive values in foods from USA, Europe, and Japan. That made clear to me: AI can’t do it, it takes a cook, a nutritionist, and a programmer to feed and instruct such information into AI—in other words, AI is just another compiler.

It takes plenty of human brain cells to make AI come anywhere close to a chef that calculates nutritive values.

What we now see in the AI-fandom world is, that companies are re-hiring back the very people they thought to replace with robots.

„We didn’t miscalculate what AI could do. We underestimated what only humans can do“ [1]

AI usually can only “take over [the easier 96% of] tasks” rather than entire positions [2]

55% of these [1163 executives (in a survey)] regretted laying off people [3]

“the management don’t actually understand the benefits of AI” [4]

[1] https://resident.com/tech-and-gear/2025/05/27/ibm-replaced-8000-staff-with-aithen-rehired-them-heres-what-that-means (「IBM Replaced 8,000 Staff with AI—Then Rehired Them. Here’s What That Means」, Derho 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè8日rì)
[2] http://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3542919718940808 (「Employees Replaced by AI Are Smiling: AI Can’t Handle Work, Companies Invite Them Back」, ZhengとCSDN 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè8日rì)
[3] https://gfmag.com/technology/companies-face-ai-buyers-remorse/ (「Companies Face AI Buyer’s Remorse」, Crosdale 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè8日rì)
[4] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/companies-are-quietly-rehiring-the-workers-they-replaced-with-ai (「Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI」, Martindale 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè8日rì)

Meanwhile, business filings for trades show that Scion Asset Management, popularly known as the guy from the “Big Short” comedy movie, has placed two bets against NVIDIA and PALANTIR. A buyer agreed to buy NVIDIA and PALANTIR shares at a fixed price from Scion in the future, and Scion pays a fee for keeping that fixed price. If the NVIDIA and PALANTIR shares fall in prices, Scion can buy low and sell high. He essentially bets on the NVIDIA and PALANTIR bubble to burst.

[7] https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-15258487/Big-Short-investor-Michael-Burry-AI-bet.html (「Big Short investor Michael Burry in £845m bet against the AI boom」, Duncan 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè5日rì)
[8] https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/11/04/famed-investor-michael-burry-bets-against-the-ai-boom/ (「Famed Investor Michael Burry Bets Against the AI Boom」, Moadel 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè5日rì)
[9] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/big-short-michael-burry-put-option-bet-palantir-nvidia-bubble-2025-11 (「『Big Short』 Michael Burry bet against Palantir and Nvidia」, Tan 2025 @ 2025年nián11月yuè5日rì)

I bet that those executives, responsible for layoffs, all have an MBA. The guy from “Big Short” has a medical degree, not an MBA.

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Petition to rename “vibe coding” to “not programming” please.

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“Diet Coding” or how about “Caffeine free, zero sugar, coding”?

The signs are there, and the birds are chirping it from the trees. The AI ​​bubble is about to burst, and the excessive, reckless investments will soon come to an abrupt halt, along with the stock markets’ subsequent crash. AI will lose its luster, and people will turn away from it in disappointment. AI will disappear into its own niche. Furthermore, legal rulings are increasingly imposing restrictions, which will also contribute to slowing down or making its development less attractive.