What a horribly reductive question. I would hope we can engage these questions with a little subtlety, rather than just "picking a team."
The snap judgement is what makes it fun.
Are You YES AI or No AI?
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#22I'm sure we will see lots of hand-wringing here on Ycombinator about the results, which will completely miss the point of how many people in the real world are sick of how overhyped AI is and the negative impacts that hype is having. The tech industry's obsession with AI is souring a lot of people on it because adoption/promotion isn't happening organically.
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#23LOL currently 93% "no."
I'm "kind of yes AI" and use it everyday, mostly for programming, for other stuff too, been doing for years. People on HN would probably call me "AI zealot", considering I have nuance with my opinions.
So obviously I voted "No", because that's closer to what I do, than "Yes". I can imagine lots of the "No" votes are like this.
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#24For folks wondering what this does, it brings you to either:
or to
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#25I'm sure we will see lots of hand-wringing here on Ycombinator about the results, which will completely miss the point of how many people in the real world are sick of how overhyped AI is and the negative impacts that hype is having. The tech industry's obsession with AI is souring a lot of people on it because adoption/promotion isn't happening organically.
I haven't seen a single ad from ChatGPT here in Spain, yet everywhere I go, there are tons of people using ChatGPT for all kinds of stuff. Last time I saw it in the wild, it was the person who was giving me the keys to a car I wanted to test drove, that was using ChatGPT and had it opened on their computer.
Seemingly to me, adoption is happening without ads or promotion, how do you explain away this?
FWIW, I wouldn't say I'm "YES AI" nor "NO AI", but I do use LLMs daily to programming.
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#26I don't know if I can really trust the data. 93% of 40k+ votes are NO AI. How is that possible. I am not sure if I would like to go back to time when I couldn't code or when I had to do all the labourious work of writing test cases on my own. Now, my time is free to build more 0 to 1 ideas, faster and more effectively.
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#27I use AI (LLMs) all the time, but I use it very intentionally. I don't reach to it for everything.
A while ago I was paying for both Kagi Ultimate and Perplexity Premium to see which one fit my needs better. I ended up dropping my Perplexity subscription in favor of Kagi Ultimate, because Perplexity often lead me down rabbitholes of trying to beat the LLM into submission, where dropping to a simple keyword search would short circuit such loops.
Sometimes LLM assisted search helps me get to the information I want faster. It can be nice to be able to provide lots of context to narrow down your query to specifically what you need, in ways that do not work with keyword searches.
Sometimes keyword searches get me to the information I want faster, especially when I know there are specific resources where I'll find the information I want, such as looking at the documentation for a specific version of something, or some any kind of information that decays over time.
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#28I love a poll that doesn’t tell me what I’m voting for. I can only assume this is an advertisement stunt and not intended to collect any data?
GABBO! GABBO! GABBO!
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#30Ah yes, the next layer in questioning the human technology department. I'd like to speak to the manager of technology. We have some other important questions that you haven't answered;
"Are you yes or no on Internet?"
"Are you yes or no on electricity?"
"Are you yes or no on fire?"