Seriously? More AI Bullshit.

Right, so some company called Tavily just snagged $25 million – twenty-five MILLION – because they’re building a platform to let AI agents… *drumroll* …access the internet. Yeah, you heard that right. They’re solving the problem of AIs not being able to Google things. Like, what have we been doing for the last two years? Apparently, it’s too hard for these digital morons to scrape data themselves.

The whole point is supposed to be making AI agents more “autonomous” and useful by letting them book flights, do research (because *humans* are so bad at that now), and generally flail around on the web. They’re targeting enterprise customers, naturally, because who else would fall for this crap? They claim it’s different from existing solutions because of some fancy “task planning” and “reliability” features. Translation: they haven’t completely broken yet.

The founder, Brian, apparently thinks this is the future. I think it’s another VC-fueled waste of perfectly good silicon. They’re promising a lot of hand-holding for businesses too scared to actually *use* AI properly. Honestly, if you need someone to babysit your AI agents, maybe just… don’t use AI? Just a thought.

Look, it’s more money flowing into the AI hype machine. Expect inflated promises and underwhelming results. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your AI agent orders 50 pizzas instead of booking a conference room.

Source: TechCrunch – Because apparently, we need to report on *everything* AI related.

Anecdote: I once had a sysadmin try to automate server backups with a script he swore was “intelligent.” It ended up deleting the entire production database. Twice. This Tavily thing feels… familiar.