Joined: Feb 2014
From: Somewhere in the pacific, or indian ocean
Once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft, Builder.ai has filed for bankruptcy after a lender seized $37M, exposing deep cracks in its AI narrative. Despite its promise of no-code, AI-powered app creation, much of the work was reportedly done manually by engineers in India. Critics say the “AI” was more branding than breakthrough, raising questions about hype vs. reality in the AI startup world.
indian ceo in UK claims his "AI" software company can make software without regular human programmers got 500mil funding, mostly from microsoft turns out his AI is just regular human programmers based in india dude resign before news come out company collapses..
Once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft, Builder.ai has filed for bankruptcy after a lender seized $37M, exposing deep cracks in its AI narrative. Despite its promise of no-code, AI-powered app creation, much of the work was reportedly done manually by engineers in India. Critics say the “AI” was more branding than breakthrough, raising questions about hype vs. reality in the AI startup world.
indian ceo in UK claims his "AI" software company can make software without regular human programmers got 500mil funding, mostly from microsoft turns out his AI is just regular human programmers based in india dude resign before news come out company collapses..
many IT professionals from India are like beginners just starting to learn. I still remember when I worked for a company in Dubai as Linux- ian one of my teammates was an Indian woman who was senior but she didnt even know how to write a basic Bash script 🤣
Joined: Jan 2008
From: KL - Cardiff - Subang - Sydney
QUOTE(lowyatfag @ Jun 1 2025, 12:49 AM)
many IT professionals from India are like beginners just starting to learn. I still remember when I worked for a company in Dubai as Linux- ian one of my teammates was an Indian woman who was senior but she didnt even know how to write a basic Bash script 🤣
Same as my experience
Senior software support engineer, dont know how to write a simple SQL select script
biasala, worked with a few indian bosses and know a few indian friends, seems like run in their gene to have beautiful plans yet deliver none of it. Similar to the one in /k who promised to leave the forum yet return again.