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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by bspammer »

huurtehoog wrote: post #291
sanderjd wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also experience this as a great loss, but honestly yes, I can't get excited about perfecting the craft of writing computer code now that there are AI systems that have done so. I'll always be sad about this! But the flip side is that I'm way more excited about what I can do with software, now that it's so much easier to write.

I experience quite the opposite. I'm quite excited about the value my skills are gaining in relative terms. An entire generation of potential competition is getting addicted to the subsidized corporate tooling. Voluntarily!

The future is open models running on your device. No subsidized corporate tooling required. There will never be a reckoning for the people who are letting their coding skills atrophy.

I don't like it either, but that's the way it is.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by PaulKeeble »

huurtehoog wrote: post #291
sanderjd wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also experience this as a great loss, but honestly yes, I can't get excited about perfecting the craft of writing computer code now that there are AI systems that have done so. I'll always be sad about this! But the flip side is that I'm way more excited about what I can do with software, now that it's so much easier to write.

I experience quite the opposite. I'm quite excited about the value my skills are gaining in relative terms. An entire generation of potential competition is getting addicted to the subsidized corporate tooling. Voluntarily!

What I fear is the future career path for manual programming is fixing AI generated systems. I suspect it will pay very well because you will be finding and fixing things the AI driven work can't. It is going to be soul destroying as reading AI code is deeply unpleasant in the same way reading the articles is.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by econ »

wolvoleo wrote: post #199
slowpacket wrote: post #178

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"Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure."

Well it is the best way to do a 'fuzzy' filter like that. Rather than trying frantically to chase keywords. I don't think anyone considers AI to be something useless. It sure has its uses, I use it a lot to help with research. But it is sometimes shoehorned into things it doesn't belong, or its capabilities overblown for marketing. I think that's what people object to.

In the old days we had this thing called a redaction. It was like a dungeon master vs playing the same hardcoded level again and again. Had one suggested automating it back then even the greatest optimist wouldn't see how you replace [say] Stephen King with a calculator but here we are - true believers.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by barrell »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #190

I miss all the programming articles. It feels like everyone has given up with the very idea of ever writing code now and the entire practice of making software has been handed over to AI.

Same. I miss the excitement around programming. New languages, new tricks, weird hacks, odd projects.

I have little to no interest in AI coding - I try it every couple months but always regret it, git reset, and go back to coding by hand.

It feels quite lonely these days. The general energy and enthusiasm from hn was a big source of motivation, or maybe community. Now using hn feels quite isolating.

I do see the occasional post about going back to hand coding though, and their frequency seems to be on the rise, so hopefully that correction continues

(I don’t need to see no AI, to each their own, just would be nice to see an equal amount of hand coding content one day)

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by philipkglass »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #192
ChickeNES wrote: post #131

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All I ever see are the Anti's and the crazies? Like the guy (who is in this very post) who keeps opening accounts to complain about Claude related posts and saying various slurs. Almost feels like the old days when Terry Davis would post technical rants with slurs applied liberally.

To be honest I have showdead on and while I see the things you see, I also see a lot of blatant AI slop getting killed off too. I'm sure most people on here are at least somewhat attuned to Claude's 'voice' by now.

If a LLM-voice comment has [dead] next to it, either the account was already banned in its entirety or HN's LLM text detector marked the comment auto-dead due to suspected LLM writing. If the comment has [flagged] [dead] next to it, the comment was killed by human flagging. You can see both kinds of comment if you browse https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

If you have enough karma to flag comments you can also flag them directly from the noobcomments feed, which is useful to help manage the abusive users who keep re-registering new accounts.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by ipsod »

sceptic123 wrote: post #316
ipsod wrote: post #26

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That's a hot take. AI has fundamentally shifted things. Start-ups can start up 10x faster, and HN is start-up flavored. If people quit talking about AI, it'll be because it's become foundational infrastructure, so it's not the primary focus of the articles, but just the atmosphere they all exist within, like the computer, or the internet.

Why 10x? If you’re making up numbers why not 100x or 1000x?

I'm pretty confident that, presently, with AI, I get more done than I could with 5x hours, but less than I could with 20x hours, and 10's a nice round number.

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by iLoveOncall »

ChickeNES wrote: post #131
mschuster91 wrote: post #105

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Turn on showdead and watch the AI bros yell into the void.

All I ever see are the Anti's and the crazies? Like the guy (who is in this very post) who keeps opening accounts to complain about Claude related posts and saying various slurs. Almost feels like the old days when Terry Davis would post technical rants with slurs applied liberally.

This comment is very clearly a bot for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657869

Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

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Post by dooglius »

Both of your links are basically ads, or at least the titles make them sound like it.

> Lenovo showed a model that incorporates solid-state air cooling. That technology has been around for a while but it looks like it matured and is production-ready. This allows for super-light and slim designs, which, in turn, should allow for bigger batteries installed and I think it's some sort of breakthrough

See now this sounds like something I'd click on. (The linked article doesn't really discuss any of the technology or engineering though)

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