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Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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

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Post by cortesoft »

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 am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc…

I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

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

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Post by mech422 »

skyberrys wrote: post #98
bink-lynch wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was around during the dot-com bubble. When it popped it popped pretty quickly. It wasn't a slow leak. Everything needed to be a dot-com and everything was centered around being a dot-com no matter what the business actually did. Money was pouring and almost anything dot-com was getting funding. I moved to a dot-com right at the tail end of it. We built a pretty decent startup from scratch within the first two month…

I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.

The sad part wasn't the bubble bursting...

It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need.

All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...

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

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Post by tacostakohashi »

cortesoft wrote: post #111
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 am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc… I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

Another example of a machine that does the hard things for you that springs to mind is... a computer.

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

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Post by phyzix5761 »

Controversial take:

I would rather spend 2 hours working on a problem, fully thinking through all the approaches and design considerations, than have an LLM write some code and be done in 30 minutes.

That's just a lot more fun for me.

I still use LLMs for faster, focused, searches that cater the results to my specific needs; but I'd still rather build stuff with my own hands.

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

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Post by cortesoft »

aarjaneiro wrote: post #82

Step 1: remove reference to blockchain Step 2: insert reference to AI

I do find it somewhat interesting that crypto mining firms are perfectly placed to pivot to AI. Both ventures involve building out large clusters of machines to use GPUs to convert electricity into money.

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

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Post by keithnz »

geraneum wrote: post #101
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”?

not really, it is my subjective view on how "enabling" it is based on previous experience of not having AI.

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

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Post by olalonde »

chromacity wrote: post #48
thelastgallon wrote: post #41

Yes, a lot of posts on HN are also about AI. Used to have more variety.

What's especially frustrating is that the posts about AI are also disproportionately written by AI. I can sort of understand that people who are very enthusiastic about LLMs also use them for blogging. But the most bizarre part is that a lot of anti-AI opinion pieces are LLM-generated too. Either cynical click-sploitation or extreme hypocrisy.

They're now paying and training people to produce more AI doom slop, so it's only going to get worse: https://www.plzdontkillus.com/

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

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Post by jaredklewis »

cortesoft wrote: post #115
aarjaneiro wrote: post #82

Step 1: remove reference to blockchain Step 2: insert reference to AI

I do find it somewhat interesting that crypto mining firms are perfectly placed to pivot to AI. Both ventures involve building out large clusters of machines to use GPUs to convert electricity into money.

I would have thought the bulk of the crypto mining was done using ASICs.

Still a lot of overlap with running a datacenter of ASICs and a datacenter of GPUs, but both are significant capital investments.

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

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Post by hackable_sand »

simonw wrote: post #90
hackable_sand wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then why did you ask the question?

Because "I really wish posts like this would clarify". I was making a point that saying "I hate AI" is intellectually lazy. The discourse here can be a whole lot better if people put more effort into clarity. I want Hacker News to be a better place for technically sophisticated conversations than most of Reddit.

But you know exactly which form of AI is exhausting everyone through mediocre application. You know exactly which form of AI requires constant propaganda and astroturfing to get a thimble of adoption.

Fugazi as fuck

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

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Post by ofjcihen »

cortesoft wrote: post #111
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 am curious where you draw your line. We have all sorts of “machines that do the hard things for you”, do you shun them all? Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, etc… I know that AI has some different characteristics than those technologies, but my point is that I don’t think your issue is that does the hard things for you… there has to be something else going on.

I don’t know that washing machines have replaced understanding things on a deep level but if they have for you I’m very curious to hear how.
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