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Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by hn_submit »

senordevnyc wrote: post #315
hn_submit wrote: post #308

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Not true. Many developers will keep writing their own code, possibly outside the corporations that force them to use LLMs to do so.

A few, yes. Just like there are woodworkers who only use hand tools out of principle. But most engineers will use LLMs on their side projects, and virtually all will for professional work.

I doubt that. The people I know who use LLMs write 85% of the code themselves.

We might even see a "codepocalypse" where the companies using A.I. to write their code realize that the code is unmaintainable, developers that cannot maintain it are sacked and they desperately look for developers who never stopped writing code and maintained their proficiency.

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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yndoendo wrote: post #81

AI has turned me away from HN more and more. Most of the content is about using some data center based ML provider. My view is how so many ignore the environmental harm these constructs are doing; increasing ambient temperatures, inducing heavy metals into the water table, decreasing the access to water for human consumption in numerous drought areas, hostel ambient noise ... The wealth who are the majority finical b…

I've noticed that in the last few days the number of articles about A.I. has gone down dramatically, probably because of this post.

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by krapp »

nephihaha wrote: post #335
krapp wrote: post #168

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>Being contrarian for its own sake is pretty stupid. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Got to say I agree with this. Contrarians can be an annoyance, but someone's got to point out the Emperor's got no clothes on.

Contrarians are usually wrong, they're more wrong more often than other people.

But when they're right, they tend to be ahead of the curve.

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by Eisenstein »

pydry wrote: post #350
Eisenstein wrote: post #283

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What was the useful blockchain tech? It seemed to me to all be different ways of avoiding regulations or bypassing existing system or addressing issues that were already solved by using centralized systems.

it let you decentralize trust. as one example, I was hoping that as well as "sign in with google" I could sign in with a blockchain based decentralized identity service where nobody could one day decide to revoke my identity on a whim. i remember my friends excitedly telling me how cross border container trade is still done with paperwork because nobody trusts each others' IT systems. I'm pretty sure it still is beca…

So, they resolved solved problems but without centralized systems.

It seems to me that people don't want to run their own security upon which they have no recourse if they fail, and don't think that benefits of centralized systems are worth giving up for the dubious benefits of a decentralized trust. Imagine if the scams for the currencies occurred with voting systems, with no way to undo it.

The technologies just didn't do anything that more than a small number of people wanted.

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by otherayden »

SeriousM wrote: post #330
otherayden wrote: post #225

I run https://www.unslop.news/ which uses an LLM (ironically) to filter out content discussing AI. There's text at the bottom to indicate what fraction of the first 3 pages gets filtered out, and it's pretty much always at 50% or more.

Thank you so much for this! Generally I like to read AI news, yet it's important to know what else is out there! I hope that ycombinator is implementing this filter by themselves, one day.

Glad you like it!

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by mring33621 »

gryfft wrote: post #221
mring33621 wrote: post #218

This is a new question that is well worth sitting with! The shape of the current Hacker News experience certainly implies an abundance of AI generated content. A quiet approach to testing this insight is to ask the HN community itself, then assess the resulting replies for the load-bearing surface features. But at the end of the day, aren't we all waiting to unpack our throughlines?

It's like blasting white noise at max volume. I wonder if all communication will eventually be rendered into a homogenous thrumming hiss.

A thrumming hiss

Bites your expanding pants

While raging toward eclipse

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by kekdkrjfjjwfj »

ktm5j wrote: post #346
catchnear4321 wrote: post #263

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You took all of one comment to categorize a person, and closed with your subjective experience. Based on my experience, this isn’t typically done for kind reasons. But what do I know, I am but one dumb monkey pushing tokens through tubes to what claim to be other monkeys but might be nothing of the sort.

If you think I'm being unkind then I think you're abnormally sensitive.

Or you may be just a bit too rude. Happens often around here—as it always tend to be in forums where people go to feel smarter and try to pose as almighty greybeards.

Next time don’t frame it as close. A telltale sign of true intelligence is not making others feel dumb so that you can feel like the big kahuna. ;)

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by lovich »

cubefox wrote: post #332
lovich wrote: post #317

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Which previous explanation did I ignore? The only one I saw upon review was > Extrapolation of the extreme AI progress we have seen in the last few years. I don’t think that’s a viable extrapolation hence my mockery about a 3 month old being trillions of pounds by the time they were 10 years old. If there was another explanation please let me know so I can evaluate it.

> AI is not limited to the rigid construction plan of an organism. A model also doesn't have to fit inside a small skull or be limited to the daily energy intake of a human.

That is not an explanation of how this technology won’t follow an S curve and can just be extrapolated out for infinite growth

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by nephihaha »

krapp wrote: post #353
nephihaha wrote: post #335

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Got to say I agree with this. Contrarians can be an annoyance, but someone's got to point out the Emperor's got no clothes on.

Contrarians are usually wrong, they're more wrong more often than other people. But when they're right, they tend to be ahead of the curve.

At the risk of being one myself... I usually find that there is some flaw in just about any set up and someone has to address that. Constant negativity is not a virtue of course, but neither is complete compliance and agreement.

Most people will agree with whoever is in charge, and it takes a lot to shake them out of that. It is clearly a flaw in the human species.

Re: How much of HN is AI?

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Post by ktm5j »

kekdkrjfjjwfj wrote: post #357
ktm5j wrote: post #346

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If you think I'm being unkind then I think you're abnormally sensitive.

Or you may be just a bit too rude. Happens often around here—as it always tend to be in forums where people go to feel smarter and try to pose as almighty greybeards. Next time don’t frame it as close. A telltale sign of true intelligence is not making others feel dumb so that you can feel like the big kahuna. ;)

what was rude? I was just being cheeky guys, yeesh.. yall need to lighten up.
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