I'm increasingly over it. Don't care how good the model/harness gets, the second I can't hold every bit of the mental model in my head is the second it's all over. And that's a very fine line and very easy to cross
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#152It's pretty much impossible for any positive story about AI to get upvoted here, isn't it? Positivity and normalcy doesn't get clicks
If you can find a positive AI story to submit I'll upvote it
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#153In which a standalone user discovers the Show HN saturation-drawback encountered here in recent months.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think this is the full picture. Plenty of people who like writing code are happy to delete code too.
When you write the code you learn from writing the code. When you have an LLM produce something and then delete, you didn’t learn much.
This is it for me. I can put up with a lot of struggle and non-sense if I feel like I'm actually developing some knowledge or skill. Vibe coding is a lot of the non-sense but little of the system knowledge actually sticks. Unless you very diligently try to understand every line, you're just as oblivious about the problem as you were when you started. At that point though the AI isn't making you any faster.
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#155Thats very nice.
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#156I wonder how many of the responses here bifurcate by age. The post resonates with me, but I am now in my early fifties. When I was in my 20's and 30's, I would have happily chased rabbits down all those holes, but now that time seems so brutally finite, I feel that anything encouring me to spend time on stuff other than what really matters is a strong negative. (Where "what matters" includes work, family, friends, an…
Of course it is. Young people are always more eager to adapt new tech while older people yell at clouds. AI usage is MUCH higher among young people.
Not sure the college graduating class feels great about AI.
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#157The way I feel about is this:
I've never made more awesome things. And those "things" now matter less to the outside world than they ever would have before.
That sorta sucks. Emotionally as well as financially.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think this is the full picture. Plenty of people who like writing code are happy to delete code too.
When you write the code you learn from writing the code. When you have an LLM produce something and then delete, you didn’t learn much.
you didn’t learn much.
And that's entirely your fault, not the LLM's.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the bifurcation is between people who want to write code and people who want to have the end product of the code. People who want to write code hate AI because it's doing the part they wanted to do. People who want the end product of the code love AI because they want anything that helps them get to the end product faster. The person who wrote this post feels oddly in neither camp. They like playing with the…
I’m not sure that’s true. All my side projects exist to scratch my own itch, so the appeal to hop straight from design to done is really appealing. But it’s never really that straightforward. There is some truth to the idea that some people enjoy it and others do not. I haven’t seen a pattern between them.
> All my side projects exist to scratch my own itch,
That's exactly what the second group in my comment was meant to address. You enjoy the end product, therefore being able to skip the code writing is appealing.
The blog post is about someone who was having AI write a lot of side projects that they weren't even interesting in using. The post directly states that they were not useful, they didn't need them, and they weren't interested in maintaining or even finishing them.
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#160I think this blames the technology way too much. > Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it. So don’t. Nobody’s twisting your arm. Nobody told the author to sit down and write a bunch of random useless stuff. This is like blaming your bicycle for enabling you to stop at too many shops that you didn’t mean to go to when you originally meant to ride straight to the groce…
I don’t think he’s blaming the technology he’s saying that AI is like crack for people with certain types of ADHD who are always thinking up new projects or going down rabbit holes. I can relate to this greatly I have started dozens of projects since last summer but have been having a hard time turning these into real value. Not even money but just something that people find useful beyond my own learnings.
You mean like how bikes are like crack to people that are always out and about to do useless errands?
Yeah I think we should protect these people from accessing these technologies, because they clearly can't handle it!