The AI could not ship a working update for his news app, so he shut it down

He built an AI news app with AI. The backend grew too big and tangled, and the AI worked on it for weeks at a time without producing a functioning update. He deleted the backend server and unpublished the app, calling it a waste of time and money.

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How it works

The AI works on the backend for weeks at a time
No functioning update comes out
He deletes the backend and unpublishes the app

Why it’s worth knowing

After weeks of agent work there was no working update at all, so a live app was deleted rather than fixed.

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Summarized from a public post on njump.me. See the original ↗

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