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Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by greenrd »

paul7986 wrote: post #106
ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

"But just need to know how to prompt AI properly to..," - Write a new top 40 song no talent required - Write a business email, a school paper, etc & no talent required - Design a logo, a website, an app, a billboard, etc and no talent required. AI is the best thing to happen to humanity as it mimics & steals humanity for a few pie holes and us the majority does nothing to stop it!

I don't understand your comment. It's poorly-punctuated, and its hard to figure out what your position is. What's a "pie hole" as a metaphor for a person? Is that what you meant?

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by fallbackboy »

dingaling wrote: post #165

My workplace has now blocked Kagi Search because it offers an AI assistant ( only approved AI providers are accessible). AI is ruining everything.

That seems really unfair because every other search engine also as "AI" integration. Kagi's is tasteful and only used when you seek it out.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by vrighter »

theshrike79 wrote: post #145
ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

That's just silly. AI is really bad at the hard things. What it's really good at is automating the tedium away. Like I had a connector made for service X. Needed one for Y and Z, all use the same basic authentication scheme, but slight differences on where they want the bits set at. That used to be a week-long project easily with me going through the docs for each service, maybe copy-pasting something from service X…

I have never had it automate any tedium for me. Because if I didn't write it, I need to scrutinize all of it, but without the benefit of a prebuilt mental model. Reading through tons of similar looking code (because it's supposed to automate boilerplate) looking for subtle mistakes is mind numbingly boring. It's like looking at a wall full of periods in font size 8, and trying to find the one comma.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by vrighter »

cortesoft wrote: post #115
aarjaneiro wrote: post #82

Step 1: remove reference to blockchain Step 2: insert reference to AI

I do find it somewhat interesting that crypto mining firms are perfectly placed to pivot to AI. Both ventures involve building out large clusters of machines to use GPUs to convert electricity into money.

crypto mining firms have specialized asics for mining. They are incapable of doing anything else.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by amoe_ »

keithnz wrote: post #66

I think this is just social media content right? Just don't consume it? Personally I find AI great and where I can , everything is AI enhanced - Coding / Software dev (obvious one) - Health ... been super useful as I recently had a thyroidectomy, it's given me a lot of information the drs didn't and also spotted a mistake my dr made in post surgery symptoms. I maintain my own set of .md files documenting all medical…

> - Philosophy, really good and useful

I have had the opposite experience, philosophy questions tending to show the various chatbots at their most irrational and confabulatory.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by whattheheckheck »

customguy wrote: post #148
whattheheckheck wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The zen of doing your chores by hand

Thinking about the world and oneself isn't a repetitive chore in the way washing your clothes is. "I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am" -- if I no longer think, what's left? Biomass? Why us then.. why not goo, or just more parking space?

Energy and awareness. Were more empty than whole and the cells that do make up an invididual are not 100% human. And all of it the periodic table of elements

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by ofjcihen »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #125
ofjcihen wrote: post #76

For me it’s just become…incredibly boring. There’s something uninspiring about a machine thats supposed to “do the hard things for you” so to speak. I like using my mind and understanding things deeply. Sure you could say that “managing the AI” can be deeply understood in a way but it’s just not exciting.

What's your claim to fame for life's work of using your mind?

Being the first in my family to rise out of poverty through self education.

To be fair your response seems somewhat revealing of your own situation.

Re: Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything

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Post by gessha »

georgehotz wrote: post #38
an0malous wrote: post #32

I think we’ll look back on this period as The Great Enshittification where everyone ran out of ideas but capitalism demands growth so everything just got worse. The mass manufacturing of mediocre AI content might be the force that ends the digital era and maybe we’ll all just go outside again.

Here's hoping. It's not that there's no new ideas, it's that they don't deliver VC sized returns. The only thing that delivers the returns investors are looking for are Ponzi schemes.

Nothing can beat Ponzi schemes because it's all promises and the returns only trickle up to the top, they are not evenly distributed.

There are ideas that can deliver VC-sized returns but they depend on a system state different from ours - scaled up energy system, housing market, education system, manufacturing capacity, research capacity, etc etc. Until we unscrew the current status quo, we(USA) will continue limping through these innovations without the capacity to fully utilize them.

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