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AI company valued at $1.5B busted for using Indian programmers instead of AI
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:17 am
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:17 am
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Today, we speak of the founder and former CEO of the AI programming company Builder.ai—Sachin Dev Duggal.
He not only created a fake AI company that was 'all humans, no intelligence.'
He managed to secure hundreds of millions in funding from giants like SoftBank and Microsoft, with a valuation reaching $1.5 billion.
Moreover, he dared to falsely report 300% revenue to investors.
Yes, the company's backend does not have AI; it is just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI.
More explosively, this scam persisted for eight years.
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This post was edited on 5/28/25 at 9:18 am
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Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:19 am to westbankdabestbank
I use Indian developers. Works great.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:19 am to westbankdabestbank
quote:Poli Board mission statement material
that was 'all humans, no intelligence.'
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:19 am to westbankdabestbank
As long as the produckt was good, why should the rest matter? I, personally, for one, would rather my code be written by hard workinf hands, and not some ai that cant truly think for itself, much less have the love and passion for doing what it does best.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:20 am to westbankdabestbank
The Indian call center scams are getting more elaborate
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:22 am to lsubatman1
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As long as the produckt was good, why should the rest matter?
Limits the ability to scale, which is probably the majority of the value
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:22 am to westbankdabestbank
I was wondering all my search results included "bobs"
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:24 am to westbankdabestbank
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AI company valued at $1.5B busted for using Indian programmers instead of AI
That is the funniest, most on brand thing I've read this week.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:27 am to kywildcatfanone
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use Indian developers. Works great.
As long as you don't mind redoing everything they code.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:27 am to westbankdabestbank
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AI company valued at $1.5B busted for using Indian programmers instead of AI
so it was the Amazon store that didn't have cashiers?
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:27 am to kywildcatfanone
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use Indian developers. Works great.
India teams are typically horrible to work with
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:30 am to westbankdabestbank
Damn. Even robots who need no living wage are more expensive than outsourced labor.
This post was edited on 5/28/25 at 10:18 am
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:39 am to kywildcatfanone
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I use Indian developers. I pay 3x the rate of competent developers because of rework, bugs, etc.
FIFY
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:45 am to westbankdabestbank
Those dumbasses are all about scamming and they don’t give a frick
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:50 am to westbankdabestbank
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using Indian programmers instead of AI
Must have been in North DFW
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:55 am to lsubatman1
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As long as the produckt was good, why should the rest matter? I, personally, for one, would rather my code be written by hard workinf hands, and not some ai that cant truly think for itself, much less have the love and passion for doing what it does best.
The quality of writing in this comment is the equivalent of hiring indians to write your code. In fact, I think the writing of this comment was possibly outsourced to indians.
Posted on 5/28/25 at 9:59 am to kywildcatfanone
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I use Indian developers. Works great.
I don't know what your definition of "great" is but it is not mine. In my experience, they typically do a shite job of developing, miss a lot of bugs, and the result is painful. I will take 1 good American developer over a whole team of Indian developers any day of the week. The only reason that they are ever hired is due to perceived cost savings.
This post was edited on 5/28/25 at 10:01 am
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:16 am to BoogaBear
And you don't mind being talked over or listening to a circular 5 minute speech that could have taken 30 seconds...
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:17 am to Landmass
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The only reason that they are ever hired is due to perceived cost savings.
I've noticed that Indians will usually hire more Indians
Posted on 5/28/25 at 10:19 am to westbankdabestbank
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He not only created a fake AI company that was 'all humans, no intelligence.'
They were busted when the AI programming aggressively spammed female dating profiles
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