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Post by jakelsaunders94 »

chatmasta wrote: post #103

What I miss is people showing off their hand-crafted libraries or frameworks. That’s become way less common now that everyone is building a layer up the stack. I fear we’ll be stuck in a permanent state of using Tailwind and React and all the LLM-favored libraries as they were frozen in time at the beginning of 2025. Then again, that’ll be the agent’s problem, not mine… All that said, it’s extremely exciting. I’ve be…

> What I miss is people showing off their hand-crafted libraries or frameworks.

Saame. I wonder if the use of AI will lead to less invention and adoption of new ideas in favour of ideas with lots of training data.

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Post by miltonlost »

overgard wrote: post #89

I'm like 99% convinced that most of the AI conversation upvotes at this point is astroturfing. I just don't see the correlation with the sentiment I get from talking to people in the real world (mostly negative AI sentiment) vs what I see here

There's definitely some people working overtime to overhype AI on here. like 50% of the comments on this are from simianwords who only posts when people say negative AI sentiments.

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Post by elorant »

I’m bored of using the AI for anything other than my work. Because with my work I can give very detailed and structured prompts and get the best results, while also being able to evaluate the answer. For everything else I’m kinda worn out by second guessing all the time or having to enter a long thread until I get a decent response.

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Post by QuantumGood »

_doctor_love wrote: post #153

This might sound like snark, but I truly don’t mean it that way. I think what’s interesting about AI, and why there’s so much conversation, is that in order to be a good user of AI, you have to really understand software development. All the people I work with who are getting the most value out of using AI to deliver software are people who are already very high-skilled engineers, and the more years of real experienc…

> I’m learning so much listening to intelligent people share their learnings.

Me too. A key purpose of HN, and a bright time for that.

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Post by solenoid0937 »

mhitza wrote: post #110
MrLeap wrote: post #37

I'm old enough to remember being fatigued with so many people talking about making "apps". Programs that run on a phone. Before that everyone was excited about blogging. Web 2.0 ugh. Before that we were excited about the wheel and the creation of fire. All capital drained into those ephemeral fancies. The cycles cycle on.

Big Data, The Cloud, Quantum Computing, Web 3.0, and maybe a few I've forgotten about. Only thing that stuck thus far is the cloud. Though not for infinite scalability and resiliency, cause that just dumps big invoices in your lap.

Big Data absolutely became a thing

The Cloud happened as well, as you've pointed out

AI adoption is well past Quantum and Web 3. Comparing it to those two is nonsensical.

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Post by cindyllm »

datsci_est_2015 wrote: post #193
vablings wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This summarizes mostly how I feel about it. It's a tool like any other tool we have advanced since the beginning of human civilization Machine tools replaced blacksmiths CNC machines replaced manual machines. Robots replaced CNC machine tenders CAD replaced draftsman (and also pushed that job onto engineers (grr)) P&P robots replaced human production lines. The steam train replaced the horse and cart This is a tale a…

What do LLMs replace, pray tell? More like moving from a screwdriver to a drill, rather than replacing the carpenter all together. Also note that there are inventions that may “replace” some part of a process, but actually induce a greater demand for labor in that process. Take the cotton gin, for example, which exploded the number of slaves required to pick cotton.

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

_doctor_love wrote: post #153

This might sound like snark, but I truly don’t mean it that way. I think what’s interesting about AI, and why there’s so much conversation, is that in order to be a good user of AI, you have to really understand software development. All the people I work with who are getting the most value out of using AI to deliver software are people who are already very high-skilled engineers, and the more years of real experienc…

Spot on, I am having the time of my life with AI, more fun than I've had in decades. But I was in the top 10% of engineering, and top 1% of the bits of engineering I do best, so it's easy for me to use AI to explore more ideas than I could have possibly explored by hand. And if I get replaced, cool bro, my investments are in compute, and compute's just getting started IMO.

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Post by keybored »

jakelsaunders94 wrote: post #211
keybored wrote: post #56

And this one will be different? > At serious risk of sounding like a heretic here, but I’m kinda bored of talking about AI. Umm. > I get it, AI is incredible. I use it every day, it’s completely changed my workflow. I recently started a new role in a tricky domain working at web scale (hey, remember web scale?) and it’s allowed me to go from 0-1 in terms of productivity in a matter of weeks. It’s all positives. So wh…

Hey :) > And this one will be different? I think you're talking about my blog post here, in which case no, I'm afraid not. Hence the admission at the bottom. >Umm. ?? > It’s all positives. So what’s the problem? The article is trying to say that these things are great, but the level of conversation leads to a lack of novelty. > It’s just the discourse around it is “boring”. And the managers are lame about it. Exactly…

> I think you're talking about my blog post here, in which case no, I'm afraid not. Hence the admission at the bottom.

Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? I’m beyond bored.

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Post by plagiarist »

brookst wrote: post #63
oulipo2 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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AI is more likely to destroy capitalism than it is to increase inequality. Ten years ago, what would it have cost you to build a Jira clone / competitor? Today one person can do it in a week, at least for the core tech. In a year, only the very largest companies will pay for that kind of infrastructure tooling. We’ve just started seeing the democratization of software and the capitalists are terrified.

I just don't know how to explain that you won't be destroying capitalism with AI. You have a subscription.
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