Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'

[u/Miserable_Phase_2519]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dwarf-fortress-creator-says-the-industrys-in-shambles-over-ai-and-layoff-happy-ceos-everyone-i-know-their-bosses-are-slowly-getting-psychosis/

[u/yoberf]

They’ll use evidence-based best practices instead of gut instincts in every decision

You mean the technology that is frequently confidently wrong about easy to look up facts will definitely be reliable in picking best practices? Ok buddy.

[u/yoberf → u/[deleted]]

So you're just making up an imaginary hypothetical. Got it.

The industry trend is not smarter data sets. It's larger data sets. How would an LLM even get a set of data that is only good CEO decisions?

[u/yoberf → u/[deleted]]

There is a very limited supply of MBA text books compared to the size of the databases companies are using for general AI. All MBA textbooks, vs All ALL books and all human writing on the Internet. So with such a small data set, and companies seeking larger and larger data sets, and current AI being really bad at stuff with the current data sets, I'd say your MBA textbook based CEO AI is gonna be hot garbage.

Also, limited dataset doesn't prevent hallucination, so your whole point about the data set is moot. The vibe code produced by AI is also hot garbage.

[u/BaconIsntThatGood → u/yoberf]

So you're just making up an imaginary hypothetical. Got it.

Companies literally take open source LLMs all the time and train their own purpose built model.

The person you're replying to isn't talking about subscribing to Claude code and saying "be ceo"

[u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth → u/yoberf]

This simply is not true of AI in 2026. Hallucination is a solved problem

[u/yoberf → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

Are you an LLM? Because that's a confident lie. LLM hallucination is unsolvable. It can be somewhat mitigated, but it cannot be solved.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4927094

[u/Throwawayrip1123 → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

Unless LLMs had a paradigm shift of monumental proportions and their underlying tech stack changed, you will literally never get rid of hallucinations, they will never be a solved problem - regardless of how many loops and harnesses you build on top of that swamp.

It is, and I repeat, quite literally, built into the very bedrock of what an llm is. There is nothing you can do to eliminate hallucinations entirely. Cutting off the Anus won't stop a human from pooping, putting self checks and loops on top of an llm won't stop it from hallucinating, it'll just catch it more often and try to rectify.

[u/Dire87 → u/Throwawayrip1123]

But I can cut out the colon ... and the stomach ... no more poop! And no more human, either.

[u/Alt_SWR → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

How does one say something so stupid so confidently? Literally just use AI for any google search for more than a few minutes and you'll be proven utterly wrong about that.

[u/littledog95 → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

Fucking lol

[u/Dire87 → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

It so is not ... source: me prompting anything. I have to ask 10 more times, and the AI will give me 10 different answers. The only semi-reliable output you get is if you demand actual sources, then check said sources yourself, which just means the "AI" we're using today is an improved Google search, because the Google search we have now is borderline non-functional since the introduction of "AI". We've come full circle. You cannot find anything relevant via the traditional search anymore, you basically have to use the AI search function, THEN check what you wanted to check.

NEVER trust any output without verifying it first via sources. Because it will blatantly "lie" to you just to give you a result it "thinks you want to hear". That's what happens most of the time I use it. I ask it something, then I want to confirm it ... and it immediately contradicts itself. I could ask it something about a certain game... and it would either just make shit up or just use the terminology I used, instead of giving me the correct terms. I have to ask it several more times and hope that 1 of the answers is correct. Granted, I mostly have to use it for language and translation stuff (a game's terminology in another language is really hard to find most of the time), but the point remains.

[u/BaconIsntThatGood → u/ADHDick_in_ur_mouth]

It's not a solved problem but it happens dramatically less than people think it does. At least when it comes to using a model with access to proper context and reasonable guard rails setup.

Even then it's still a problem and needs to have guidance and supervision.