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Thanks, I thought that might be it (re "lurid"). How about "vulgar"? Ah, too archaic maybe?


Boring fraud VS Wild AI hype

- Proven: Builder.ai collapsed after fabricating revenue.

- Unsubstantiated: The claim that Indian coders disguised as AI is mostly hearsay, not backed by documents or insiders [1].

- Marketing vs reality: They marketed features as AI-assisted, not AI-generated code. Two completely different things.

- Bottom line: The real scandal is financial fraud, not a fake‑AI front.

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[1] Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/setting-record-straight-real-...

Yash Mittal, ex-Associate Director of Product @ Builder.ai

He describes a sophisticated AI-automated development pipeline, including:

- Requirement gathering via conversational AI

- Auto-generated features, user stories and test cases

- Graph neural nets building prototypes

- AI-based design and code generation

- Quality checks were handled by humans, not deception.

- Human developers never pretended to be AI.

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Please, let's keep the information here reliable. We don't want this forum turning into another Reddit. Thanks to everyone who took the time to investigate and share evidence or real experiences.




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