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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by Aperocky »

There's incredible opportunity in the stuff that is missing, which is a wonderful thing.

The linear function do not work any more - we'll all deal with AI on some level, handwritten programs would be like assembly programs, there will be some, but not many.

But everyone is currently focused on the second derivative - using AI to further AI stuff - that's a valid goal but not in of itself, AI is just a tool, a tool that gets better is still a tool. It still needs to build something other than itself.

First derivative is where the money is. Let me grab this tool and do something useful/fun with it. Thanks for the fierce competition to build me the best tool in the mean time.

Like adding erosion to this hydrology simulator that I felt too complex a few years ago: https://aperocky.com/hydrosim

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by alex1138 »

Sibexico wrote: post #46

I'm working with AI since early 00's and it was a lot of fan of this with very little community of an artificial neural networks developers. Now AI is widely available and used by people with discussable level of intelligence to generate tons of slop, so all the internet looks like a big trash bin.

It's especially irritating if OpenAI is built off fraud which it could be. It means the whole bubble/genuine current hot thing got off to a bad start

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by 100ms »

Unironically the best method to implement that browser feature you're looking for is probably also AI. Which tells a meta-story, AI isn't a new feature it's also a new medium. It can be used to turn cave speak into works of literature just as easily as it can turn voluminous spew into one liners (Ed Zitron just popped into mind for some reason). You can't ignore it once it exists, but it sounds like the problem you have genuinely can be solved by it, and I expect over the next decade we'll see a lot more of exactly that.

Here's to reading HN projected through the lens of manga comic strips sometime after we solve the GPU shortage..

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by spatley »

AI slop everywhere on social is terrible; I grant you that.

But AI tool in the hands of professionals that care about what they produce is becoming revolutionary. We are doing things we would never have done. Projects I never would have even started I am doing with new enthusiasm. I and the people I work with are using agents to learn new topics so fast. AI makes mistakes all the time, I found myself getting gaslit last week that refreshing my auth token would update my permissions (authentication and authorization are not the same thing)

If you are just looking at the output in images and garbage posts. Yes it is an abomination that must be stopped. But I cannot imagine a world without it now. And for the better.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by drob518 »

corvus-cornix wrote: post #39

I'm looking at engineering job specs at the moment and it's very wearisome that every company seems to have pivoted from highlighting the unique value they provide to customers to putting AI front and centre in their employer branding. My eyes immediately glaze over at what may have been the result of "Claude, take this HR/marketing/whatever copy and inject some AI". I've adopted the tools because they're useful, but…

Yes, I was around then. It felt exactly the same. That’s how you know it’s a bubble. Because everyone starts acting stupid and conjuring up all these ridiculous explanations for why it makes sense when it plainly doesn’t. In 1999, everything was about the Internet, even when it didn’t make sense. Every company was saying that to be left out of the “Internet revolution” was a fast path to bankruptcy. It’s the same with AI today. Yes, the Internet was important and some companies did get displaced, but most didn’t. So too for AI.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by O1111OOO »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #13

I love AI and LLMs. I love all computer technology except printers. Gimme more - looking forward to further leaps forward in AL and LLMs - the party has just started.

> I love all computer technology except printers.

Am I the only one that wants to print on dot-matrix printers again? Maybe find a copy of The Print Shop (Broderbund). It could just be nostalgia kicking in.

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