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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by bearjaws »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

Time for me to open up my "AI Code Refurbishing" shop and specialize in fixing all the disasters these "AI technicians" make.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by substation13 »

ravenstine wrote: post #12
superchroma wrote: post #2

When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

Programming requires far more breadth and precision than 2D art.

I think that in the very long run programming work will be automated, but by that stage we will either be post-scarcity or reconstituted in computation substrate.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by dsmmcken »

mym1990 wrote: post #22
sbf501 wrote: post #6

You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.

Just curious, is there any general number range for how much traffic a front page post might get? Less than 10k, 10-100,000, 100,000+, etc

I can tell you it's more than a $5 dreamhost box can handle right now.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by ezekg »

mym1990 wrote: post #22
sbf501 wrote: post #6

You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.

Just curious, is there any general number range for how much traffic a front page post might get? Less than 10k, 10-100,000, 100,000+, etc

I've gotten on the front page more than a few times. In my experience, it usually peaks around 1.5k concurrents for a blog post. Peak was 50k total visits over a couple days, but has been much less too. Depends on the content and how interesting it is to the wider HN audience.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by echelon »

substation13 wrote: post #23
ravenstine wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…

Programming requires far more breadth and precision than 2D art. I think that in the very long run programming work will be automated, but by that stage we will either be post-scarcity or reconstituted in computation substrate.

You say that with such confidence.

I'm looking for ways to hedge my reliance on my skills.

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by jrochkind1 »

This is very interesting, but why are all the images just showing up as blurred out pre-loads for me? Makes it a lot less communicative, since it's literally about the images!

I mean, I'm guessing these aren't the intended images, since you don't need DALL-E to generate blurry splotches!

Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

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Post by brundolf »

dsmmcken wrote: post #7
sbf501 wrote: post #6

You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.

I know. I wasn't actually expecting to hit front-page. Trying to reinforce it best I can.

Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise)

For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat

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