I am. To keep talking about it I might just deploy a chatbot to do that for me.
Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#22It's a black box that thinks for me, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it times out.
I am extremely skeptical of AI products anyone builds. It's just using one black box to build scaffolding around another black box and then typically want to charge money for it. I don't see any value there.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#23I've been sick of it since 2022.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#24I think it's kinda double whammy, one the one hand working with AI leaves a lot of 5-15 minute breaks perfect for squeezing in a comment on a HN thread, while also supplanting the sort of work that would typically lead to interesting ideas or projects, substituting it with work that isn't that interesting to talk about (or at least hasn't been thought about for long enough to have interesting things to say).
This resonates. I build products on top of LLMs, and the most interesting work I do has nothing to do with AI; it's designing structured methodologies, figuring out what data to feed in before a conversation starts, deciding what to do when the model gives a weak answer. The AI is plumbing.
But nobody wants to hear about prompt calibration or pipeline architecture. They want to hear "I replaced my whole team with agents." The boring, useful work is invisible, and the flashy stuff gets all the oxygen
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#25Yes. Go to Mastodon. I accidently stumbled on Mastodon last night (I knew about it of course but largely ignored it). Of the 100 or so posts they were all cool stuff. Only one was AI related and it was more a researchy geeky thing than the brainrot "I fired all my staff an hour ago. They were not happy. CRLF. CRLF. I have an agentic circus and I am the ringmaster of 666 agents. CRLF....." crap you get on Linked in.
I think you meant Mastodon[1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#26No, because what most people miss about AI is that…
I’m just kidding. LinkedIn feed became so unbearable, that I had to install an extension to turn it off.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#27I wish there was an option to hide AI stories on HN, and AI-related repos on Github's trending page. You could use AI to do it! Fight fire with fire. I'm neutral on AI - so far it seems useful but flawed. But I don't want to hear about it constantly .
100% this; GitHub is littered with a bunch of AI shit projects that pollute the trending page.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#28AI has become a commodity- for the better or worse. And yes, we should treat it as such, especially no more big ideas from (C-level) managers, please.
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#29Not me
I'm not sure if this is a joke but the field is advancing so dramatically it's hard to stop talking about it. Every week at work I have to show a new AI feature to an executive, about how we can now write 1000's of lines of codes in minutes at a higher quality than the greatest engineers. This necessitates new tools and new purchases, as well as team and org shifts.
If you're reading this and your life hasn't been thrown into disarray you're likely just behind the times. There are a lot of people who are deep in tech who still don't understand what agents and LLM's can do
Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
#30AI is an ok tool.