I'm Tired of Talking to AI • Hacker News Board

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by ljm » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

Falell wrote: post #353

jvanderbot wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tip: The best coworker I ever worked with had the name of a famous italian pop star and worked at JPL and yes this is a roundabout endorsement. He would _always_ say "Let's find out together", and then proceed to find the answer in front of me, doing effectively LMGTFY but in a way that was extremely more helpful (by watching his workflow and allowing questions) and empathetic (by taking time politely and starting fr…

The kind of people GP is referring to refuse to actually learn from this. I've had several coworkers over the last 15 years that absolutely refuse to 'learn to fish'.

I've struggled with this, even encountering people who basically say "if AI can do it why do I need to spend any more time?"

It was disappointing hearing someone tank their own prospect of career growth like that.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by booleandilemma » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by hnal943 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

I think new norms will develop around this behavior - it's rude to show someone else your AI output, and I think long term that will be broadly recognized.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by tombert » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

You’re absolutely right! It can be frustrating talking to an AI—especially when you’re expecting a human. Let’s try again, this time I’ll make sure to be a person :rocket:

In all seriousness, I agree. It’s getting to this depressing point where I write code with AI, the code is reviewed by AI, the end user is AI. I don’t really know what the point is anymore.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by booleandilemma » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

smerrill25 wrote: post #417

I remember late into my master's degree in a ethic's class about AI we had discussed the possibilities of the butterfly effect of not letting it transpire. He had given us a tricky word, and I don't remember what it was, but he asked us to create a definition for it. I offered up an answer to my class, giving a reasonable enough answer for both my professor & colleagues to agree; however, Another girl argued against…

I am so thankful that I was able to go through school before LLMs.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by tootie » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

xen_relay wrote: post #19

A bit off topic, but I am currently travelling through Europe by train. It is such a boon to just be outside everyday and meet locals and fellow travellers. Highly recommend.

I have a pet theory that we were better off when the economy flowed through Wall St rather than Silicon Valley because Wall St people ride the subway to work.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by rdos » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

> Recently someone messaged me on Reddit about my post. I replied. They wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent.

My exact experience. The irony was that we were talking about AI agents

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by finnthehuman » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC

Invictus0 wrote: post #52

Get a grip! If you want to talk to a human then pickup the phone or go meet them in person

It doesn't prevent people from outsourcing their thinking to AI. People don't bother preparing to discuss topics beyond what AI told them. If they have access to their computer during the conversation they'll ask AI rather than google for reference material. If they don't have access, they'll suggest "investigating" (asking AI) and reconvening.

We had a problem that involved some open source library. The call consisted of various people saying what claude said about the code, then me explaining how it was incomplete or misleading (read: wrong) based on what I learned from actually reading the code.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by millerm » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

Yeah, I have dropped out of the tech biz completely. I'm unemployed and kind of screwed now. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to work with intellectuals and thinkers. This is why I was in the industry for 20+ years. I liked the stimulation. Communication with humans is dead in the workplace. Now it's just a bunch of mindless automatons asking AI. No thinking about the problems at hand. No interest in understanding the solutions. It's all just "get it done as fast as possible." I refuse to work in that environment. Tech people are becoming about as skill-leveled as a fast food worker's level of training. Just pressing buttons on a screen as the screen tells the to press them. It's a meaningless existence to sit there an be forced to communicate with f'n AI models. No thanks. All you AI bros can have it. We'll see how useless you are in a few years when you realize you know absolutely nothing and couldn't work yourself out of a paper bag without AI guiding you.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by limaoscarjuliet » Wed, May 27, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #382

MichaelZuo wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well you should probably find a workplace that doesnt punish the “curmudgeons” for directly saying that. I doubt that will become a widespread norm within this century at least.

The people are answering with copy-paste AI are the curmudgeons trying not to get fired for being “hard to work with” The workplace of the future is just fake nice and pretty people parroting whatever their google babelfish tells them to

EVery company that comes up with a product that brings a lot of gravy turns into place where people like this flourish. They have always been there - they would ask your question to many people, get their anwers and pass the response as their own.

Nowadays their job is much easier, just two copy pastes and lunch break.