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

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by volkl48 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

dist-epoch wrote: post #274

ghoulishly wrote: post #242

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I’ve seen this at work and it drives me nuts. I don’t value my time extraordinarily highly but even still I find it disrespectful to offload my question and make me read something they didn’t even bother to read.

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Usually when people are asking questions it isn't that they don't know how to find a possible solution at all, it's that they don't feel they know enough to evaluate the correctness of the solutions they may find, and they think you do.

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Google will turn up plenty of sites with solutions to problems that are a bad way of going about it, and some that are actively detrimental/will make your problem worse - but sound plausible.

A LLM will potentially even take this a step further and present the same thing in glowingly confident terms. And will have chosen to ignore that the source it took it from was obviously questionable in reliability or had many comments below it disagreeing. Now, you can of course check into the sources, but that still just brings you back to the Google stage.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by inquirerGeneral » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

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Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by moomoo11 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

I put people who do some of the BS listed here on mute or block.

Life is better with people who actually engage and are curious about improving things human-to-human.

AI (LLM) responses are catered towards the lowest common denominator / average type shit responses.

The best use for AI/LLM agents is to do work I tell them to do, like a servant who obeys my orders and executes them.

A human using AI/LLM to respond to another human (who has already used AI/LLM to come up with a v1 he wants to discuss) is a moron and not worth engaging with further. Even if they're your friend, it is a good signal that you need better friends.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by moistoreos » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

I FEEL this. It's empowered lazy devs to defer thought and accountability. To some degree, I understand. It softens the imposter syndrome feeling one can get. But, I see it as a character barrier; not a moral one.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by victor22 » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

Go outside

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by dbetteridge » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

ramon156 wrote: post #203

p2detar wrote: post #17

> I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn’t even read the AI’s answer. That's just rude and borderline psychotic behavior. It's still a bit better at my workplace bu…

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So Silicon Valley's big-head is based on an actual stereotype?

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by mindfulbun » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

I like the way how you have written this text. It’s short and clear. Not a wall of text. Very easy to read and comprehend.

I believe that being concise is a going to be a new trend. And not just concise, but unique and short, probably even with a lot of mistakes in your writings

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by jimbokun » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

jvanderbot wrote: post #172

torben-friis wrote: post #60

>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer for them. There is something deeply disturbing in it that makes me feel I'm not talking to a self sufficient entity.

What I hate about this whole thing, is that there are many reasons someone might reach out to a coworker with questions. Not all require the knowledge in fancy markdown with emojis. Maybe they want to show respect to a person by asking their opinion before proceeding with a change Maybe they want to share context and make that person aware of what they're thinking without being so obvious Maybe they need _that person…

Humans are already forgetting how to Human.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by surajrmal » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

thesamethrowawa wrote: post #278

542354234235 wrote: post #245

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Why do you feel the need to simplify life into such a narrow perspective? While it's true that being smart can limit your confidence, what you've written is beyond exaggeration. There is so much more complexity involved.

Re: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

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Post by sg1apm » Wed, May 27, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

Don't worry. It happens to many of us, but it's not that serious. It's really like talking to yourself, given that they're still great language models, LLMs. Just imagine what it will be like in 10 years.

That's why I suggest and advise seeing AI as a hyper-mega-spatial super-hedge-trimmer. And if we focus on developing our creativity, productivity, communication skills, optimization, development, etc., using the different models in the best way, we can create true works of art with our super-hedge-trimmer. Despite the above, I certainly agree and believe that the harm caused by certain technologies and dependencies will continue to be one of their main problems, regardless of their many other beneficial effects.