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Yeah. But I'd argue that it really isn't possible to know what is going to happen. But yeah. I'm trying to focus on the positive aspects. Because what else can you do?
I, for one, am fine with witnessing what changes ´neocoding´ will bring us.
Simultaneously I am terrified of what others will be able to do.
Is it just my impression, or programming language posts took a hit. I think I don't see them as often as before.
Most everything took a hit. Roughly half of the front-page content throughout the day is AI press releases, AI product marketing, vibecoded projects, and essays about AI. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but there's not much room left for anything else.
Let the AI renaissance begin!
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I think one look at the flood of vibe-coded projects (like decomps, mods, etc) hitting the retrogaming scene now proves this article wrong already. You literally see a major project blow up in one day, then immediately get 'busted' for AI. And it's almost certainly hitting other fields too. Games on Steam, mobile apps, websites and web apps, etc.
Busted? I’d think that AI would be a godsend for retro computing, a field always starved for programmer support especially in emulating obscure stuff.
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Busted? I’d think that AI would be a godsend for retro computing, a field always starved for programmer support especially in emulating obscure stuff.
People do it for the pleasure of figuring out obscure stuff. The point is dealing with that old unsupported tech as much as the games themselves.
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I feel like there was an attached covenant with the "Show HN" concept that implied someone had likely put some level of painstaking craft and creativity into whatever their project was. It felt like a reasonable bargain to give your own time to looking at the post and seeing what they had spent time and effort in creating. I'm struggling to see what the point is to looking at Show HN projects these days. It's like in…
Exactly how I felt reading this comment. This site is dead, no point anymore.
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If only the AI renaissance didn't mean a dark age for everything else...
Yeah. But I'd argue that it really isn't possible to know what is going to happen. But yeah. I'm trying to focus on the positive aspects. Because what else can you do?
You can resist.
Upvote quirky projects, call out fake hype, make your disapproval visible, call AI slop what it is.
The term AI has become a liability in some circles, so let that be proof that you don't have to just accept whatever AI companies tell us.
Remember that "Where's the Shovelware?"¹ post? ¹ https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...
A lot of friends who were not computer illiterate but also definitely not coders are now publishing websites regularly with whatever comes to their mind at the time. Quality could be questionable but quantity-wise I can definitely see the start of the exponential growth.
No you can't
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Yeah. But I'd argue that it really isn't possible to know what is going to happen. But yeah. I'm trying to focus on the positive aspects. Because what else can you do?
> Because what else can you do? You can resist. Upvote quirky projects, call out fake hype, make your disapproval visible, call AI slop what it is. The term AI has become a liability in some circles, so let that be proof that you don't have to just accept whatever AI companies tell us.
I screamed in people's faces - alienated half my relationships. And absolutely nothing I did had any impact whatsoever. And so I learned to accept the things which I cannot change.
You need to know - the hype isn't fake, my friend. Those stories are real. If you genuinely want to resist, you need to shed your bad information. Good luck.
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I think one look at the flood of vibe-coded projects (like decomps, mods, etc) hitting the retrogaming scene now proves this article wrong already. You literally see a major project blow up in one day, then immediately get 'busted' for AI. And it's almost certainly hitting other fields too. Games on Steam, mobile apps, websites and web apps, etc.
Busted? I’d think that AI would be a godsend for retro computing, a field always starved for programmer support especially in emulating obscure stuff.