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Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by surgical_fire »

jackie293746 wrote: post #115
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> AI is fine. The hype is annoying. I'm finding the detractors worse than the hype, because it seems like a certain subset of detractors [0] formed their opinion on AI in late 2022/early 2023 when ChatGPT came out (REALLY!? Over 3 years ago!?) and then never updated their opinions since then. They'll say things like "why would I want to consume X amount of energy and Y amount of water just to get a wrong answer?" In…

Claude Opus 4.6 regularly makes up shit and hallucinates. I'm not a detractor by any means but "exceptionally rare" is fantasyland.

I have been experiencing it too.

I honestly am finding Codex considerably better, as much as I despise OpenAI.

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Post by sciencejerk »

jimmyjazz14 wrote: post #60
luxuryballs wrote: post #45

“it’s all starting to feel a bit… routine” and that’s how I know it’s going to replace me if I stay an employee

I don't follow your logic, it was always either going to disappear or become routine much like any other tool you would use at work.

I think that they mean that "routine" work like AI agent prompting and config is repetitive, predictable and somewhat thoughtless work. Human employees that perform repetitive, predictable, thoughtless work are easy to replace with AI

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Post by mtndew4brkfst »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #41

I’m sad that it’s crowded out all the interesting stuff I used to love learning about on HN.

Not limited to here, of course. Net-new publications to ArXiv for some (most?) CS subcategories are >=90% about models, transformers, training, quantization, or some other directly related field, or how to apply these towards a different specialty.

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Post by surgical_fire »

tonmoy wrote: post #57
lpcvoid wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI is one of the causes that climate change is accelerating, which is another in a long list of reasons to hate it.

Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t seem useful

Which is why talk about AI datacenters typically involve energy supply constraints, and possibly the need to build power plants along with it.

It is, of course, because it barely uses any energy.

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Post by mhitza »

heavyset_go wrote: post #100
jonhuber wrote: post #44

I think what's crazy is the desire to replicate current day corporate structures. Look at this multi agent Jira story reading bot that builds stuff cause we let it churn overnight. Like the whole idea that you don't need that nonsense to build something amazing.

See also this insanity: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/

Pretty funny boasting about accelerated results, when his public contributions are only in two repositories (gstack itself and a rails bundle with 14 commits).

Endlessly grooming the Agent reminds me of Gastown.

Curios to see what he'll present, if, from his 700+ contributions in private repositories.

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Post by emp17344 »

paulsutter wrote: post #93
vrganj wrote: post #18

AI is fine . The hype is annoying. What's even worse though are the incredible amounts of money and energy that are being thrown at it, with no regard for the consequences, in times of record inequality and looming climate apocalypse. AI is the red herring that'll waste all our attention until it's too late.

How did HN become this kind of website?

The parent comment is a pretty measured take. What’s your problem with it?

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by CrzyLngPwd »

Yup.

Bored of hearing about it, bored of reading about it.

I love using these LLM tools, but honestly, it feels like every man and his dog has something to say about it, and is angling to make a quick buck or two from it.

And the slop, oh my goodness, it's never-ending on every site and service.

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by webdood90 »

lukev wrote: post #46

This is bad in tech. But at least we are (relatively) well equipped to deal with it. My partner teaches at a small college. These people are absolutely lost , with administration totally sold on the idea that "AI is the future" while lacking any kind of coherent theory about how to apply it to pedagogy. Administrators are typically uncritically buying into the hype, professors are a mix of compliant and (understandab…

> These people are absolutely lost, with administration totally sold on the idea that "AI is the future" ...

Doesn't sound that different from my tech job

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