I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg | SpinGraph: Skeptical framing
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I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg - The Register
Task Manager, AI readiness, skeptical testing
The Register AI / Software via Google News
Developer used Task Manager — a simple, stable, widely understood Windows utility — as a stress test for AI reasoning. The test was explicitly designed to expose brittleness, not showcase capability. No results, outcomes, or findings are reported in the article — only the intent and framing of the test.
Emphasizes methodological skepticism while minimizing any actual evidence, results, or comparative analysis; makes the absence of data feel like intellectual discipline rather than reporting omission.
The pragmatic engineer testing hype with boring tools.
A developer tested AI using Windows Task Manager to assess readiness for real-world use.
No description of AI models tested, no transcripts of interactions, no definition of 'slop', no criteria for 'ready'.; No mention of baseline human performance on the same task or comparison to prior evaluations.
Combines the credibility signal of a veteran developer with the intuitive resonance of a mundane Windows utility to make the *idea* of testing feel substantial, while the article delivers no test artifacts, metrics, or outcomes — creating a gap where perceived methodological gravity exceeds actual evidentiary content.
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop'