A blip appeared on my phone while I was on the treadmill last week, it was yet another LinkedIn post talking about the wonderful value AI has brought upon us. Day after day, anywhere I look, I have to sit through opinions that are exuberantly optimistic. Yet all examples given are always tiny tools, and I have yet to see a real-world example of agentic usage in production critical systems that hasn’t gone wrong, or at best underperforming. Don’t get me wrong, I derive extensive value from the use of AI and I do enjoy using coding agents for prototypes, tools and debugging. But I sense a disconnect between what the AI evangelists say, and what I experience first hand. We need some pragmatic counterbalance to ground some of the marketing fluff in reality. So here are some of my hot takes on the current state of AI, March 2026. # Hot Take 1: Anything In Public Can Be Learnt If You Want To With AI Big Tech currently heavily subsidising our freely accessible usage of sequence guessing…
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