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It's a cult. And frankly, I am not interested in churches or cults.
The utility of current-era AI may well be overstated, and the business models of certain companies might be doubtful, but that doesn't make AI it a "cult".
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And here's some rather more clueful analysis instead of what looks like AI-generated marketing blogspam: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-07/jan... ( https://archive.fo/0PQ2E )
That bloomberg which spread fake news about india selling gold which it had to retreat. I will sbi over foreign news peddlers.
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Until what they need is free or has a heavily subsidized cost. We keep forgetting that
I can use a local model to build a restaurant website. The model generates code fast enough that even my 10 year old server can generate all the code needed in about an hour. It will use about 50 cents of electricity and be better than 90% of the restaurant websites out there.
The benefit here is designers learning to code. It was always weird to me that designers were shaping software without knowing how it was built. I'm a designer btw. However, designing in code is technology-first. One could argue that the purpose of design - to shape the artifacts for human purpose - is better done NOT starting with the strict rules of code. Pen and paper is still hard to beat, not for anything that l…
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The utility of current-era AI may well be overstated, and the business models of certain companies might be doubtful, but that doesn't make AI it a "cult".
AI is not a cult, HN regarding AI is. It's boring and it's viral and if you refuse to participate, there are still people annoying you with their beliefs. It's a fucking tool, like a fucking shovel.
I worry about Figma stock, I know some who bought during the IPO who are now underwater. Figma launched their own design agent but not sure how well that's doing.
It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach of automating various parts of a normal Figma workflow to speed things up for users, that would have helped them discover where the value was; lots of little ideas, failing fast, testing and updating.
Maybe they just got too big and lost their mojo.
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Not all countries and their regulatory bodies are equal.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/jane-stre...
In other words, it is an AI booster. Abusing the goodwill of programmers for their OCaml involvement even though most of it was convoluted bloat and inferior to INRIA code is devious.
It happens all the time now and people need to inoculate themselves against it:
A single famous open source person or an open source involved company invested in AI suddenly posts "organic" testimonies in favor of AI. It means nothing. The person is not the same person, the company is not the same company (or is now overtly evil).