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We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by mschuster91 »

paulhebert wrote: post #68
johnfn wrote: post #57

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Speaking personally I was not particularly moved by the article because I have seen the same thing, in different shapes, thousands of times on HN and elsewhere. Really, AI can't feel and therefore it is inferior? Never heard that one before. Really, an AI can't feel friction and therefore can't adapt to it? Daring today, aren't we? (And a more interesting question: is that even true..?) I realize I am being unnecessa…

It’s bizarre to me to hear that HN has an anti-AI bent. This is the place I see AI discussed the most. Admittedly the opinions here are mixed. A lot of people do have negative feelings but there are also a ton of pro-AI comments. There Are huge 600 comment threads about a new model release, weird rants about “Gastown”, constant “Launch HNs” for model wrappers, and people saying writing code by hand is archaic. This i…

> It’s bizarre to me to hear that HN has an anti-AI bent.

IMHO, it's a solid 50:50. The threads about new models and whatnot will be filled by hypers, the threads detailing the social and economic consequences (or the newest scandal of major protagonists) with doomers and haters.

Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by surgical_fire »

Isaackoz wrote: post #41

I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a human-only created typeface and an AI assisted typeface.

That's a fair point, and in full self-criticism mode: I suspect I also would not be able to.

What it tells me is not that their work has no value, only that I am not the target audience for their work.

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Post by fatata123 »

joshcsimmons wrote: post #89

Is this a flex now? As always, I don't really care what tools a creative uses to manifest their idea in the world, I care how good the product is. AI, just like the coding language you choose is a TOOL. Tools can be wielded expertly or crudely. At the end of the day your customer doesn't care who you are they care about your product.

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Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by prmoustache »

rvz wrote: post #17

All these "principled" people telling others that they "practice what they preach" then keep shooting themselves in the foot with their "production" site down and hugged to death on the front page. Just ask the AI to set up your site for better uptime if you don't know how to.

Sorry but that is just rage posting. Please turn up your brain and have a look at github uptimes for instance. You would think that by now AI would have solved all their problems right?

Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by My_Name »

thoughtpeddler wrote: post #110
My_Name wrote: post #85

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I don't like what AI is doing to the world and the tools it puts into the hands of those who would make the world a worse place, but I don't have my head in the sand about the inevitability of what is about to happen in a lot of fields, for better or worse. Companies will see it as a way to make more for less, they will lay off many people, not realising, as Henry Ford did, that to make money you need to pay your wor…

> could be bladerunner, could be star trek, could be 1984. Could be terminator. It's a profound moment for sure, but let's ask ourselves: could the creative works of early last century have predicted our world? Would people in the 1930s say "2030, it could be like Metropolis, could be like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, could be like Flash Gordon"? No. The real future might be nothing like any of the sci-fi movies we'…

Those shows are just shorthand for 'utopian future with no need for money', 'distopian future where corporations have control', 'distopian future where machines have control', 'distopian future where the government have control' etc

Plainly, the precise future we get will be as unlike the films as our current situation is like Metropolis (robot girlfriends, skyscrapers, drones/flying transport) but the specifics are very much different.

We certainly do live in interesting times. Would be nice for them to get a bit less interesting IMO.

Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by BerislavLopac »

My_Name wrote: post #76
mass-driver wrote: post #54

Hey, I’m the author of this article. Just thought I’d share some context, since HN is a little outside the intended audience: - We’re a tiny design studio specialising in fonts, so our website was (maybe predictably) not set up to handle a big traffic spike. It should be stable now. - This article was written in response to some font industry discussions on the same topic. It’s a collection of thoughts rather than a…

For font design, and art beyond what could be called boilerplate art, real art, not just something to quickly throw on a website so you have something there, AI is not a good tool. I think AI will take over many jobs, firstly in the arrangement of characters and words into stock text, or coding. But art, not just pictures, is something that will take longer and may never happen. Design is very similar. Good art makes…

AI is going to replace artists in exact the same way rhythm machines replaced drummers.

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Post by stasomatic »

seb1204 wrote: post #86
phil21 wrote: post #46

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> That's also likely to be a small pool of people relative to the number of people interacting with AI Perhaps small now. But overall this seems to be what most have done in my small social circle. Small uses of AI here and there, sometimes surprising gains/wins they find out and share if asked, otherwise really it's just another tool to learn and make use of. Most everyone thinks it's overhyped and wedged into stupi…

I count quite a few of my colleagues into this observing and must learn role. My problem is that most entry use cases that are advertised are not cutting it for me. Write overlong emails that could have been a short hand written one? Write longer prompts to get shorter LLM email responses? Create presentations that screw up the corporate theme and send me fixing it? Write power automate flows that send me chasing err…

For personal use I find "AI" extremely useful and fun.

I asked Claude to create a mini stack that email me a daily digest:

Today's weather, rain forecast. Top ten local news,US news, world news New HN articles, bubble up articles about bicycles, crafts, Japan, exclude Rust, Zig, Python, JS, Node, Bun. Summary of articles in my favorite subreddits.

A separate email summarizing new antique items on ShopGoodWill.com, with their starting prices, auction end dates.

Oh, and it configured Proxmox on my NUC and installed and configured the whole *arr stack.

Now, I am a techie, so I know what to tell it and could do all of the above myself with enough elbow grease, but I never would have. All of the above took under an hour.

Just this morning, I created a plugin so that Claude speaks to me as Samuel L. Jackson, or Arnold, etc. Fun fun.

Replaced 90% of my browser web searches. I don't know how many trees I burned and lakes dried.

Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by jplusequalt »

echelon wrote: post #104
jplusequalt wrote: post #98

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Hey. I've seen your comments in other threads, and have been one of the people who has downvoted you. >I am sick and tired of anti-AI dogma. "Anti-AI dogma" does not exist on HN. I see more posts in favor of using AI then against them, and most people on HN I would bet are pro-AI. If you want to see a stark contrast, go read a r/ExperiencedDevs post related to AI. >I want a healthy, happy community sharing about the…

The discourse is full of venom and it's not from our side.

>The discourse is full of venom and it's not from our side.

Again, expecting people not to show emotions over things they care about is a you problem.

Re: We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

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Post by paulhebert »

mschuster91 wrote: post #121
paulhebert wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s bizarre to me to hear that HN has an anti-AI bent. This is the place I see AI discussed the most. Admittedly the opinions here are mixed. A lot of people do have negative feelings but there are also a ton of pro-AI comments. There Are huge 600 comment threads about a new model release, weird rants about “Gastown”, constant “Launch HNs” for model wrappers, and people saying writing code by hand is archaic. This i…

> It’s bizarre to me to hear that HN has an anti-AI bent. IMHO, it's a solid 50:50. The threads about new models and whatnot will be filled by hypers, the threads detailing the social and economic consequences (or the newest scandal of major protagonists) with doomers and haters.

Yeah that seems about right to me.

And that seems fairly balanced. Especially considering polling says more people are worried about AI than excited in the general population

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