The facts
Madhu Shashanka is co‑founder, chief scientist and chief technology officer at Concentric AI, a data‑security software firm. In a Guardian interview he explains that artificial intelligence is “jagged”: superhuman on some tasks but weak on others. He cites Waymo autonomous cars, which crash far less than human drivers but still repeatedly park in disabled‑spot zones and collect parking tickets, as an example of AI’s clumsiness, referencing a Wall Street Journal report. Shashanka notes AI can be confidently wrong and often cannot signal its own inaccuracies, creating a need for human judgment. He points to Ford’s recent rehiring of 350 veteran engineers to oversee quality‑control automation, showing that human expertise remains essential for setting limits and catching AI errors.
Our take
Well, fuck me sideways, the AI revolution has hit the ultimate roadblock: the fucking painted lines on a parking lot. Madhu Shashanka, a data-security CTO who presumably knows his silicon from his asshole, has given this bullshit a perfect name: jagged. It means your million-dollar autonomous car can navigate city traffic like a Formula One ghost but will, with the unwavering confidence of a drunk toddler, park itself directly in a handicapped spot and wait patiently for a ticket. What a brilliant, useless cunt of a machine. It’s not just wrong; it’s smugly, catastrophically wrong, and it has no mechanism to tell you it’s about to get towed. That’s not intelligence; that’s a rich asshole who’s memorized the rulebook but pisses on the floor because he doesn’t understand context. The solution, as proven by the galaxy-brain strategists at Ford, is to desperately call back 350 human engineers they probably fired two years ago to clean up the automated quality-control disaster they created. You fired the people who knew how the bolts actually fit so you could replace them with a confidently incorrect algorithm that can’t tell a good weld from a fart in the wind. Now you’re paying them consultant rates to stand behind the robot and say, 'No, you stupid prick, not there.' This is the grand fucking future: building systems so brittle and dumb they require a permanent, expensive human crutch. We’re not building AI overlords; we’re building the world’s most expensive, high-maintenance pets - pets that will gladly run your company into a concrete wall if you don’t hold their fucking leash. So here’s to the jagged edge, you overhyped pieces of shit. Keep racking up those parking tickets while we rehire the humans you were supposed to replace. The only thing you’ve automated is the need for a babysitter. (Words: 302)
