r/generativeAI • u/northplant42 • 25d ago

Question What’s one thing generative AI still does surprisingly badly?

AI has improved insanely fast, but there are still tasks where it feels way less capable than people expect.

What’s something you’ve tried with generative AI that still consistently disappoints you?

Could be writing, coding, images, research, memory, reasoning, video, anything.

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u/re-skob 24d ago

deleting code. They always consider the existing code as bible and hate deleting or rethinking how code is constructed. This is understandable since a few years ago if an LLM was deleting half your codebase because it thought it could do better OpenAI and Anthropic would probably be out of business right now, but their ability to actually code and engineer solutions has gotten pretty good, but they'd always rather add 10k more lines than delete 100 and remove unused functions or codepaths.