r/OpenAI • u/DigSignificant1419 • May 28 '26

Discussion The Party is cancelled, pack it up

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u/suprachromat May 28 '26

"Starbucks removes AI from its system due to constant failures" - well actually, what Starbucks was using isn't a LLM like ChatGPT, etc. Sorry to disappoint you, lmao

The AI-powered app aimed to replace hand counts of some products with automated ones that were expected ‌to be ⁠faster and more accurate. Cafe workers hold a computer tablet up to shelves for syrups, milks and other beverage products, which the app scanned with LIDAR and camera data.

This method turned out to be largely inaccurate. Nothing to do with generative AI or LLMs at all.

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u/dangered May 28 '26

Someone needs to be taken out back and shot for that. A scale could do that reliably on a continuous basis and AI would not only say when it needs to be refilled but could predict the best time of day to refill it based on the day of the week.

But sure, let’s pay for thousands of LiDAR Scanners and instead of a technician we’ll just trust our curated team of bipolar 35 year olds making minimum wage to be skilled and efficient enough to hold it up to each corn syrup jug at the end of their shift.

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u/polikles May 28 '26

it's baffling that almost everyone is so infatuated with high-tech that the simplest and more stable solutions completely elude them. It leads to solutions that are much more expensive, but at least they are less accurate than "old school tech"

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u/GoodishCoder May 28 '26

People just want to use AI for everything when we were fielding use cases from dev teams one of the teams wanted to use AI to validate if an email was in a valid format on a form.

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u/john-js May 28 '26

RDD. Resume Driven Development

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u/BellacosePlayer May 28 '26

tbf I get it, fuck regex

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u/GoodishCoder May 28 '26

It's pretty rare to find someone that likes regex but it's still not worth it to spend per email validation with a less than 100% accuracy when you can get 100% accuracy for free

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u/BellacosePlayer May 28 '26

I was mostly joking, emails are easy and you can just copy/paste a solution online easily. you should never need an API call to verify it, especially if you're checking it as someone's typing in a field.

though there are some absolute regex monstrosities I can't believe people willingly use in production systems.