Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?

I just finished a call with a friend who is a power user of Gemini, to great benefit. I delivered a PC with tensor cores for when he wants to do more locally. AI is a critically helpful and growing presence in his career.

Conversely, I spent an hour one day trying to prevent Gmail from puking text onto every new email I begin. It turned out to be a Chrome feature and scrapping Chrome is the only way to stop it. Past that is more time spent working out how to disable Gemini and remove it's elements, so it's unwanted presence isn't triggered into being a problem.

Every month I have to review the list of registry edits I use to keep copilot's unwanted advances out of my users' workspace. Notably, there isn't one for Win11 notepad and MS CP has to be disabled manually thru the UI.

Of these two preferences, major tech respects just one. The other one is continually acted on, leveraged and intruded upon - with tech corps showing no more understanding of consent than Harvey Weinstein did. If AI is on the table, what we want is just an obstacle for UI devs to overcome.

I am tired of AI being shoved into everything in a way that makes it "AI first". I don't know exactly what this will end up looking like but rsyslog is trying to do "AI first" in their primary product. Rsyslog is or was a great light-weight and incredibly flexible logging daemon. When I see them say "AI first" it makes me cringe. If AI was a separate, entirely optional bolt on product and package I would not be concerned at all. I am concerned they are about to bloatify, enshittify, hyppeify, crappify a great product. Maybe they won't. Or maybe they lose all sense of priorities and lose great developers and fade into history only to be replaced by some new daemon created without knowing all the lessons learned over the decades and we have to experience all those painful evolutionary steps all over again such as collaborating with hundreds of companies to narrow down interpretations of RFC's. Or maybe they are just leaving out too many details for me.

I see other products trying to do this as well. My intuition tells me this is not going to end well. I could be entirely wrong. I really hope I am wrong. Maybe it's just purely hype and products will not lose what makes them great. Maybe it will just be some burnt development cycles. Or maybe it will really just be making new application connectors, formatting and protocols to be more AI friendly.

[1] - https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-goes-ai-first-a-new-chapter-...

PS Installing consumer driver and or config stuff like that is a classic trap for spyware and accidental vulns.

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These options can help reduce resource usage and provide a smoother experience.

I’m beyond tired of hearing people complain about AI. Just stop already. If you don’t like it, don’t use it, find a job where people don’t like it and work there. It’s exhausting how Luddite the tech community has unironically become.

The only thing I don’t like is products raising prices “because of AI features” like google workspace increasing prices.

Like dawg I don’t use Gemini I just use your email and google drive.

Fuck.