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

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Post by geraneum » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

keithnz wrote: post #66

I think this is just social media content right? Just don't consume it? Personally I find AI great and where I can , everything is AI enhanced - Coding / Software dev (obvious one) - Health ... been super useful as I recently had a thyroidectomy, it's given me a lot of information the drs didn't and also spotted a mistake my dr made in post surgery symptoms. I maintain my own set of .md files documenting all medical…

I’m curious, could you demonstrate the difference between “Insanely useful!” and “really good and useful”?

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

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Post by coffeefirst » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:02 AM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #49

Nothing makes me hit that close button faster than those fake voices everywhere now. That overly polished narrator on every other TikTok, half the YouTube videos read by the same auto-tuned robot (that apparently people over 60 can't tell is a robot). And don't get me started on streamers with like a confidence voice filter. Fuck all that noise. And it's only going to get worse. Is this what getting old feels like? H…

The voice is a real problem. I’m looking to do some basic home improvement stuff. 2 years ago I could YouTube how to do almost anything and find real people with plausible credentials demonstrating it. Today, first you need to dig through everything that isn’t real.

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

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Post by throwanem » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:04 AM UTC

journeyman3538 wrote: post #99

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

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

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Post by ofjcihen » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:05 AM UTC

journeyman3538 wrote: post #99

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

I think in a certain way your reply has underlined exactly why this AI frenzy has made things so uninteresting. Just maybe not the way you intended.

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

#105

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:07 AM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #103

journeyman3538 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

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

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Post by paul7986 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:07 AM UTC

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

"But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..,"

- Write a new top 40 song no talent required

- Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required

- Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required.

AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it!

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

#107

Post by throwanem » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:08 AM UTC

ofjcihen wrote: post #104

journeyman3538 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

I think in a certain way your reply has underlined exactly why this AI frenzy has made things so uninteresting. Just maybe not the way you intended.

Oh, he knows what he said. That's why he made a sockpuppet account to say it.

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

#108

Post by ffsm8 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

I find comments like yours very strange.

> do the hard things for you

The only people advocating for that are the same kind of people which were pitching the cloud as a solution for your hosting needs.

Ime the sweet spot for development with LLMs is to figure out what you need to do and then do that through AI. Yes, it'll still make some decisions there, but did you really get satisfaction from the decisions of eg what to call a class before? At last I didn't.

You can of course try to offload everything to the LLM and not tell it what to do, but only specify what it should enable (spec driven), but at that point youre gambling wherever the output will work and the project becomes unmaintainable - which may be fine too in certain scenarios, that's just pretty rare in a business context

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

#109

Post by ondrek » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

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

#110

Post by absynth » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:11 AM UTC

journeyman3538 wrote: post #99

ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

That’s more of a personal problem isn’t it. You can now work on things that are more valuable. Your old work and interests can be taken up as an art instead: to be enjoyed instead of existing for its function.

New role unlocked: starving artist!

Your parents could afford a house, have kids etc etc at a far younger age but now you are single with no kids and choosing food or rent or power. You spin the wheel! Lucky! You get to eat.

Progress!