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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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“Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.” — Karl Valentin --- Personally, I'm still very interested in the topic. But since the tech is moving very fast, the discussion is just very very unevenly distributed: There's lots of interesting things to say. But a lot of takes that were relevant 6 months ago are still being digested by most.

This is a great saying, thank you for sharing it. Out of curiosity, do you have any links to intersting AI articles you've read recently? Maybe I'll change my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzLPn164w0

I don't like the hype language applied by the channel host one bit - and so this is not something where I expect someone tired of the hype to be swayed - but I think his perspective is sometimes interesting (if you filter through the BS): He seems to get that the real challenge is not LLM quality but organisational integration: Tooling, harnesses, data access, etc, etc. And so in this department there's sometimes good input.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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You may be bored of AI, but because AI is not yet bored of us, turning away may be dangerous.

AI is neither bored or nor engaged with us. It's just a technology that we can use or abuse. I doubt it'll become conscious anytime soon though our the desire to invent God or deceive others will push us to invent many contraptions to make it appear conscious.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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AI won't be what acidifies our ocean, but AGI might save us from it. Strangely enough, I don't see you calling to end the consumption of meat which would have a far larger environmental impact while not slowing global progress at all.

> AI won't be what acidifies our ocean Tech is what got us where we are. AI allows us to use more energy to produce more of what is currently measurably killing us. > but AGI might save us from it. This is just faith. Some believe that prayers may save us.

"AI energy usage" is a convenient scapegoat not backed by data.

Many things are orders of magnitude bigger than AI in the energy usage problem that bring less comparable value.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Hey, I don't think this sounded like snark at all. Super grounded take. > I think what’s interesting about AI, and why there’s so much conversation, is that in order to be a good user of AI, you have to really understand software development. This I agree with completely. You can see it in the difference between a prompt where you know exactly what you want and when things are a little woolley. A tool in the hands of…

Thanks friend! Appreciate it. Agree, the diversity of the discourse is not great. There's a lot of "omg I just got started waaauw" articles out there along with "we're all gonna die!" stuff. And then a few seams of very excellent insight. Deep research at least helps with dowsing for the knowledge...

your HN handle is one of my top 10 fav tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2RSniyYNSc

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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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How do I answer this without spamming: Yes, very much. Everyone is in their own place adapting (or not) to AI. The disconnect b/w even folks on the same team is just crazy. At least it's gotten more concrete (here's what works for me, what do you do) vs catastrophizing jobpocolypse or "teh singularity", at least on day to day conversations.

Yeah maybe some workplaces are starting to get more organized but in general there's teams with anti-LLM engineers still and some that have Claude Code running all day.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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post #80

I'm not. At least I'm not tired of talking about how it's killing websites and filling everything with spam. I have spent most of a decade building a useful resource, and Google AI overviews has killed my traffic. It killed everyone's traffic. This thing gave me purpose, and I'm watching AI slowly strangle it. I mourn the death of the independent web, and it frightens me that this is still the happy stage. We haven't…

AI isn't doing any of that, it's the companies that train their AI's or push their slop that are doing all the harm. We should always keep in mind who the villain is.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Isn't that scary though: A bunch of people are going to be forced to use a tool that keeps them ignorant and they absolutely won't know if it's doing correct things, to the point that as you retire, the next crop is going to be much less involved in knowing whats going on. It's what happened with the internet and computer usage. As Apple made it easier to get online with zero computer knowledge, suddenly we're electi…

Serious reply to this one: I truly don’t find it any more scary than what’s already taken place many times in human history. We have hundreds and thousands of years of history showing humans committing atrocities against each other well before the advent of computers, or even the introduction of electricity. So while the tool may become so ubiquitous that there’s no option not to engage with it, I don’t think it real…

> Serious reply to this one: I truly don’t find it any more scary than what’s already taken place many times in human history

Spoken like someone who thinks they are going to be insulated from the fallout

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