It's fascinating, right? AI - all of it.
That's what I thought too when I first started trying. I went from casually experimenting to actually implementing it in my real life. Taking decisions based on it. At work, more and more things kept moving toward AI. And for a while, I was genuinely excited. But somewhere along the way, my perspective changed. From being excited to starting to think very differently. I found a reason for not liking it to the extent I did when I first started.
The solution itself is non-deterministic.
For my whole life, I was trained to work on solutions that are deterministic. You write a function, you pass an input, you get an output. Every single time. The whole invention of computers was to replace the redundant, to remove human error. And now we're moving toward a solution where the solution itself is non-deterministic. Nobody knows what solution AI is gonna give. One same query, again and again - and it might give a different answer every time we execute.
The best we can do is steer the conversation to a direction we want. That's it. Not control it. Steer it. That distinction matters more than people realize.
The Hallucination Problem
I started using a model heavily - for work, for thinking things through, for building. Months in, it felt reliable. Then it started hallucinating more and more. Confidently wrong where it used to be dependable. And I couldn't do much about it except steer harder.
It made me question things. Are we even going in the right direction? We spent decades building deterministic systems because we believed certainty was the goal. If we're now embracing machines whose outputs we can't predict - does that mean the direction we were in so far was our wrong doing? It all was waste?
I sat with that for a while.
The Illusion of Certainty
And I think the answer is simpler than I expected. The future was never deterministic. We just built tools that pretended it was. Every prediction model, every five-year plan, every "guaranteed" outcome - approximations of certainty in a world that never offered any. We got comfortable with the illusion.
AI doesn't offer that illusion. It's a process - and the process is what's good. Not before, not after. Enjoy today. Play with AI. Build new things. Because the future itself is so non-deterministic that there is nothing we can do, nothing we can think of, and nothing we can control. There never was.
I don't say this to romanticize the chaos. Some days it's genuinely frustrating. But I've stopped asking whether this is the right direction - because nobody knows what comes next. Nobody ever did.
And honestly? I'm excited about what comes next.