I saw the ads and it definitely was ambiguous whether builder.ai and AI were working together or not. Looks like Builder.ai is simply trying to cash in on the buzz around the Tata group taking over Air India.
Otoh, AI threatening legal action gives too much weight to a dumbass ad campaign. They should have trotted out a spokesperson to poke fun at a unsolicited gift saying they’re returning it to sender.
It would not have spawned an entire industry and no code websites every other week or so if it was ‘just a CRUD app’. Also, Curious as to what makes you think its a sweatshop? Did you come across any adverse reports of their offerings? If yes, please do share. If not, please stop slandering!
I just don't understand why. Like I get it they are trying to get more eyeballs on them, but the ads sure made it seem like Builder.ai and Air India were doing some sort of collaboration (almost as if Air India was building a new site on top of Builder.ai). This is like the corporate version of girls on Instagram saying they are "sponsored by" when in reality they are not sponsored by anyone and are just trying to get clout.
To even think that Air India will contract an app to them when they are the parent company of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is extremely moronic.
TCS has a global presence, and they get contracts from the largest everythings of India (including the India Post site, the State Bank of India's site, for example). They also handle the online exams for IIT entrances, bank promotion exams, and so on. I think you get the picture.
And Tata owns them both.
It's pretty much given that if Air India creates an app, it's TCS who will build it.
Successful in me noting to avoid anything having to do with builder.ai and engineer.ai in the future. Although the .ai domain was going to heavily lean me that way anyway.
Seeing the horror stories of underpaid pilots, terrible or nonexistent food service on ultra long haul flights, and growing maintenance backlogs during their perpetual “vande bharat” thing has been unsettling. India to this day does not allow “scheduled international flights” originally due to Covid but now just to keep the airline in business for the sale to finalize
Would you say that Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, or HCL are better than TCS?
(I know quite a few people working in those companies, and the consensus seems to be that TCS is the least bad among the WITCH companies. Correct me if I am wrong.)
To be fair, their prototype looks 100x better than their existing app/website and would definitely look 200x better than any shit design TCS(owned by the same parent company as Air India which is Tata) would ever come up with.
Feeling kinda sorry for builder.io having such a similar name - i immediately thought of them when i saw the name. The major downsides of a generic name i guess.
Systematic means "across the board, following an intentional plan" so it's also a broad brush statement. Presumably you meant systemic, which actually does have a specific meaning and wouldn't really apply here. It's a common misconception though.
Otoh, AI threatening legal action gives too much weight to a dumbass ad campaign. They should have trotted out a spokesperson to poke fun at a unsolicited gift saying they’re returning it to sender.