This is more of a rant rather than a question. I find HN has become overwhelmed with AI and LLM content. For someone who has little interest in this area (I gravitate more towards programming/systems topics), I find myself jaded due to the large number of submissions in this single area. Don't get me wrong, I do like what LLMs can do and find their potential to be on par with inventing the computer itself, but I feel HN has lost the balance of topics it once had.
Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
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Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#2HN is tech-centric, and AI is dominating tech.
What would you rather see instead?
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#3HN is tech-centric, and AI is dominating tech. What would you rather see instead?
AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#4HN is tech-centric, and AI is dominating tech. What would you rather see instead?
AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job
> ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out
Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me.
What would you rather see instead?
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job > ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me. What would you rather see instead?
The average productivity increase is not 1500% though.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job > ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me. What would you rather see instead?
The average productivity increase is not 1500% though.
Copilot saves my team enough time that we could split it up in 3 teams instead of hire 2 more teams of our team size to do that work. And we also didn’t hire new team members and are not planning to as we actually are running out of tasks. If this stuff gets any smarter, the firing will happen. Instead I am thinking of a new product instead to stop that. Pretty insane imho.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job > ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me. What would you rather see instead?
The average productivity increase is not 1500% though.
Ok.
A "mere" 20% would be a four day work week with zero productivity loss.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#8Seasons. Last one was crypto.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.
> AI hasn't changed a thing about my job > ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out Increasing productivity by 1500% sounds pretty earth-shattering to me. What would you rather see instead?
If AI increased your productivity 1500% I shudder to imagine how little you get done without it.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN become too skewed towards AI/LLM?
#10HN is tech-centric, and AI is dominating tech. What would you rather see instead?
AI is not dominating tech, hype about AI is dominating tech. I'm still knee-deep in the same shit that I've been doing for 20 odd years and AI hasn't changed a thing about my job. Occasionally ChatGPT helps me do something in 2 minutes that might have taken me 30 minutes to figure out, but it is not an earth-shattering productivity multiplier that the industry is hyping it to be.
So what else would you like to see on the front page? Java, boring Postgres and HTML all are useful but there aren’t exactly any new innovative things that are happening everyday that warrant posting on the front page