Slate production line w/ frames! Current status video (5/19/26)

[Tom Sawyer]

Please forgive my pessimism. Maybe I've spent too much time on this forum reading & reading about the Slate truck, but I don't see any big revelations in that AI analysis.

The more AI posts I see on this forum, the more I dislike/distrust AI.

 

[ElectricShitbox]

I had AI analyze the video...

 

[dragondroptv]

Please forgive my pessimism. Maybe I've spent too much time on this forum reading & reading about the Slate truck, but I don't see any big revelations in that AI analysis.

The more AI posts I see on this forum, the more I dislike/distrust AI.

I was posting more to be funny since everyone was over analyzing the video. I will add I use ChatGPT to help do my job. It's great, however it will lie and be wrong. I'm a programmer and if you have to also know how to do it. If you rely just on the AI your screwed!

 

[ElectricShitbox]

I generate my own plausible sentences after watching stuff.

 

[bloo]

My non-AI take is the bed isn't simply resting on a pair of frame rails at the bottom. It's attached from top to bottom to the cab. This should prevent the dreaded frame sag seen on a lot of older compact pickups from years of corrosion and/or overloading.

 

[Driven5]

The more AI posts I see on this forum, the more I dislike/distrust AI.

What?!? You don't think it got all that 'rear wall' of the cab stuff correct??

 

[SparkYellow]

I notice that very often my searches in AI mode end up with links to forum threads/posts (here, reddit, mazda247, and etc). So far I haven't seen any BS getting used/cited in AI searches. Has anyone encountered AI talking BS?

 

[ElectricShitbox]

I notice that very often my searches in AI mode end up with links to forum threads/posts (here, reddit, mazda247, and etc). So far I haven't seen any BS getting used/cited in AI searches. Has anyone encountered AI talking BS?

"AI" is by definition always talking BS. It's using your prompt to generate a response it thinks you're looking for. It is a plausible sentence generator.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

The AI misinformation is getting pretty deep here. I don't know where the derision is coming from, but it's way off base. I don't think it's malicious, I just suspect maybe people are using the free public models, which are six months out of date - and in AI, six months is 60 years.

I spent thirty years as a senior software engineer/analyst/architect in the advanced R&D division of a leading Fortune 25 tech company. As of May 2026, Claude writes better code than I ever did, 1,000x faster than I ever did. And it is improving exponentially at a rate that is difficult to follow. It's error rate is no greater than mine was, and a second iteration fixes that with me just saying "this bit is wrong". And unlike me, its error rate declines with each new release.

Most of my former coworkers don't write code these days because they're too smart to waste their time on a brute force task that the AI does better. They understand that AI amazingly improves their productivity. Some of the guys I worked with now run 100+ professional tier AI agents 24x7. My former employer won't hire you or keep you on board if you don't use AI - you are an unproductive asset, negatively affecting company performance.

Now further up the software food chain? Yea, that's where me and my pals lived. We were the full stack architects. And architects are safe for just a little bit longer. And by "a little bit longer" I mean double-digit months, not double digit years.

Most laymen just don't understand exponentials. Human brains aren't wired to intuitively comprehend what an exponential improvement or growth curve looks like. We live and breathe linear growth and improvement.

 

[bartflossom]

The singularity isn't looking far away anymore. I'm just waiting for someone to use AI to bring down the internet.

 

[ElectricShitbox]

When the hype cycle dies out, the improved GPU based computing will give small efficiency bumps in a few industries that process large amounts of data. Nothing more. That's the way technology actually advances. All the gambling addicts out there want you to believe they created a computer god, so that you also gamble on it. Saying that a computer computes a little more won't attract billions in VC money though.

 

[Driven5]

Has anyone encountered AI talking BS?

Frequently. It was the entire point of my previous post, immediately above where this question was asked.

For fun, I just lobbed the first quasi-technical softball that popped into my head to Google...
"Does slate auto use a unibody?"

This was the beginning of the AI Overview...
"No, Slate Auto does not use a traditional unibody. Instead, the upcoming Slate electric truck uses a unique "Smarkdown" architecture..."

AI... Knocking it out of the park once again.

The problem with 'AI' is that more and more people are using it to replace taking a moment to actually learning even the most basic information about something for themselves, when in reality you actually need to learn about it yourself before you can sort the good info AI gives you from the bad.

 

[SparkYellow]

Frequently. It was the entire point of my previous post, immediately above where this question was asked.

For fun, I just lobbed the first quasi-technical softball that popped into my head to Google...
"Does slate auto use a unibody?"

This was the beginning of the AI Overview...
"No, Slate Auto does not use a traditional unibody. Instead, the upcoming Slate electric truck uses a unique "Smarkdown" architecture..."

AI... Knocking it out of the park once again.

The problem with 'AI' is that more and more people are using it to replace taking a moment to actually learning even the most basic information about something for themselves, when in reality you actually need to learn about it yourself before you can sort the good info AI gives you from the bad.

I asked the same question and got a different answer. 😱

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I heard Slate's 'Snarkdown' architecture has won Major Awards:



Got 'em using their amazing Mind Powers, too.

 

[sodamo]

I notice that very often my searches in AI mode end up with links to forum threads/posts (here, reddit, mazda247, and etc). So far I haven't seen any BS getting used/cited in AI searches. Has anyone encountered AI talking BS?

Not recently, butlast year I was having a challenge with my tractor. as usual, my first stop was the tractor forum to. Get peer input. I input several solutions, but as questions. Later I asked Perplexity. It parroted my tractor forum posts as the solution. Thankfully, it fottnoted them.