Step one, stop using google.
Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
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Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon? You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics that development requires, to replace developers, but that the same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of…
One data point: teenagers can drive cars but are rarely hired as developers. I haven’t quite thought it through enough to conclude that driving is easier though.
Teenagers are rarely hired as professional drivers either, and they often learn how to write code.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#23Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
I'm with you. Any company that uses the word 'disruption' simply means making investors richer and everyone else worse off in numerous ways, and the utopian vision of people simply getting 'better jobs' when displaced by AI is absurd.
I know we can refer back to the industrial revolution, but I'm pretty sure that was no fun for the people involved (other than the investors), and we have a lot more people to think about these days.
Silicon Valley is nothing but a place for evil these days.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#24Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon? You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics that development requires, to replace developers, but that the same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of…
When 70% to 80% of coding can be automated you can be productive with far fewer developers. Doesn't mean all developers are going away. Just like we have 75% fewer farmers than we had 100 years ago, but we still have farmers. There's still going to be developers 100 years from now, but significantly fewer than we have today.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#25No thanks, I'd rather get the AI results than SEO blogspam
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#26Just get Kagi and stop using Google entirely.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such, I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is exactly what this backlash is about.
The backlash is because an interesting technology that is not ready for prime time is being pushed out the door as the solution for every problem that exists. Any dev who’s been around long enough can recognize when a tech strategy is being pushed down from corporate leadership rather than driven up from its objective usefulness.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such, I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is exactly what this backlash is about.
I have really huge reservations about LLMs, but a fear that they will replace me as a dev is certainly not one of them. And while I can't speak for anybody but myself, I have never heard a dev I personally know express any real concern that they're going to be replaced by "AI". The ones who express professional concerns are mostly worried that AI is going to remove the aspects of software development that they enjoy.
I find the use of copilot reduces the amount of software drudgery that I don’t enjoy and lets me do far more of the parts I do enjoy.