I do miss the fun, small side projects that used to be in the front page. Artisanal coding they call it now.
Why do side projects only count if you take 20x as long to do them by not using modern tools?
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
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#402Your suggestion would break my use case: i.e I check out HN every day to see what the latest models that have been released are, and opinions from erudite people who have taken them for a spin. Keeping abreast of fast moving AI developments with informed opinions/comments for various new models/agents etc. is primarily what I'm here for.
You lost me at erudite
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#403Brute force being the antithesis of hacking spirit, I too wish brute force would end up in Lamer News instead.
Implying llms are brute force?
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#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never go by pay. I won't fix bad systems whatever their provenance because trying to understand poorly coded software is very unpleasant. I go by interesting problems and I like being able to chose from more options due to lessened expertise competition. Why people voluntarily renounce expertise is beyond me, but they are and I welcome the increase in choices of engagement I have been experiencing. I would never en…
It's the domains, the problems being solved, that are interesting, not the lines of code. I want to have expertise in the former, not the latter.
The code is ultimately the codification (ha!) of domain knowledge in precise, non-ambiguous ways. It has extrinsic, non essential complexity yes.
But including ever more complexity in the process, by depending on complexity-slinger systems that you don't fully control or even understand, is not the solution, in my view.
If you lose control over the precise, detailed specification of the domain knowledge that the code is, ultimately you are just a glorified business analyst. Besides, the inherent complexity of the implementation is not without essential complexity that needs mastering for security and performance reasons. Deferring that mastery to some tool is self defeating. The complexity doesn't disappear. You're just shuffling it around and when it leaves your purview you are merely creating opportunity for someone else to capture that value.
Ultimately yeah the vision of being an LLM jockey who doesn't know code might be viable or even numerically dominant in the market in future. Why would you descend the value chain though, and voluntarily, that I don't understand. Competing for volume isn't historically in the interest of the autonomous worker. Maybe I'd feel differently about it if I owned capital and had some corporate strategy behind it. As an independent actor, I don't see it favoring me.
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't wish anyone any reckoning. But I can see and feel less competition for my niche knowledge and I welcome it.
What niche knowledge? It seems to me that applying general knowledge to new niches has never been easier.
Yeah I know it's not obvious. And very lucrative and very freeing, having this sort of knowledge and leveraging it.
Especially after clients have suffered the new found arrogance of non-experts riding on LLM output.
Look, let me be perfectly clear: if you're getting what you want out of your job and your personal projects, hobbies, whatever you do with your time, awesome! If you feel like the trade-offs of including LLMs in your workflows are good for you, great!
Just don't delude yourself into thinking this new technology, this new tool, is free of trade-offs. Net positive for you? Ok if you think so go for it. I haven't found the inclusion of LLMs in my activities beyond replacing the broken state of traditional search worth it. That's it. I'm not against it, I just don't find myself getting net positive value from deferring to code generated by these tools, is all I am saying. Nothing more, nothing less than that simple statement. Not for me.
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Maybe! But probably not, IMO. There have been a number of generations now that have been "addicted" to using digital spreadsheets rather than doing bookkeeping by hand.
Yeah you're right. There has been an erosion in domain expertise there.
> The accounting profession is facing a severe crisis due to a shortage of accountants.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2023/12/01/the-accounting-profess...
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#407Yessss!
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#408"One of the largest changes in human history has started, why is everyone talking about it?"
Seems to me that most people still have to get up in the morning to go to a bullshit job just to stay alive and consoom things they don't need. I don't see the big change.
Get a better job my guy. Unrelated to AI, why are you living like that it sounds horrible and you can just get another job. I'm happy to help you fix up your resume if you would like.
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both have sped up front end development at the cost of making half of the internet look the same.
I don't think it's fair to blame AI just because people aren't prompting unique design elements into their vibe-coding.
Doing that would negate productivity gains for the users that prompt it for things outside their expertise.
Re: Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
#410Long time user, recently scrambled my password and gave up on HN entirely. It's not just the AI thing - though that hasn't helped - there's been a real turn in the community. The most generous take I can offer is that a lot of people flooded into tech for the money in the last ten years, and now that the money is tighter all these people are panicking and trying to cling to anything that looks like a winning lottery…
> The most generous take I can offer is that a lot of people flooded into tech for the money in the last ten years, and now that the money is tighter all these people are panicking and trying to cling to anything that looks like a winning lottery ticket.
> Unfortunately that means that for those of us who actually like cool tech, the space is inundated with get rich quick trash and wishcasting. So so much of it on HN right now.
This is, ironically, exactly how I see this myself. In fact, I recently commented here in a similar fashion, although not as eloquently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436470
I still think YC can try and do something about this, but realistically it's just damaged beyond repairable.