{"id":2239,"date":"2026-05-13T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:37:53","slug":"the-problem-with-ai-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/the-problem-with-ai-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with AI today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest problem with AI today is that it will do exactly what you tell it to do.<br \/>\nAnd often, it ties itself in knots trying.<\/p>\n<p>Tell it to add features, and it will.<br \/>\nMake things prettier? No problem.<br \/>\nLayer on more functionality, more complexity, more cleverness? It will happily comply.<\/p>\n<p>Even when the result is worse for the user.<br \/>\nEven when usability is sacrificed for aesthetics.<br \/>\nEven when complexity grows exponentially.<br \/>\nEven when the underlying model becomes internally inconsistent.<br \/>\nEven when common sense should have said no.<\/p>\n<p>Capability is not the same as judgement.<br \/>\nAnd increasingly, that\u2019s the gap that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest problem with AI today is that it will do exactly what you tell it to do. And often, it ties itself in knots trying. Tell it to add features, and it will. Make things prettier? No problem. Layer on more functionality, more complexity, more cleverness? It will happily comply. Even when the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}