By Joab Jackson
Publication Date: 2026-04-04 13:13:00
All Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking “Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site.” And, no, adding “DON’T HALLUCINATE” to the instruction loop won’t help.
More to the point, optimal AI results favor the well-fortified agent, according to speakers from IBM, Meta, and Netflix – among others – at the All Things AI conference in Durham, North Carolina.
The more you want AI to do your bidding, the more preparatory chores you’ll need to do, they advised.
Numerous talks evoked the Jevons Paradox, where the more efficient a resource becomes, the more it’s used. The paradox is often used to explain why AI won’t take everyone’s jobs. In fact, it will create more jobs, the argument goes.
