The Pragmatic Engineer Gergely Orosz • 6/12/2025

Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

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This article investigates the media reports claiming Builder.ai used 700 human engineers to fake its AI capabilities. It debunks this claim and then conducts a technical thought experiment on how one could theoretically build a system where 700 developers mimic an AI, discussing challenges like latency and drawing parallels to historical hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk.

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