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Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by scorpioxy »

peruvian wrote: post #268
jvanderbot wrote: post #4

How do I answer this without spamming: Yes, very much. Everyone is in their own place adapting (or not) to AI. The disconnect b/w even folks on the same team is just crazy. At least it's gotten more concrete (here's what works for me, what do you do) vs catastrophizing jobpocolypse or "teh singularity", at least on day to day conversations.

Yeah maybe some workplaces are starting to get more organized but in general there's teams with anti-LLM engineers still and some that have Claude Code running all day.

Yes, extremes which seems to fit the general sentiment of the world right now.

For a while, it felt like I'm in a minority when I was saying that it can be a useful tool for certain things but it's not the magic that the sales guys are saying it is. Instead, all the hype and the "get rid of your programmers" messaging made it into this provocative issue.

HN was not immune to this phenomenon with certain HN accounts playing an active part in this. LLMs are/were supposed to be an iteration of machine learning/AI tools in general, instead they became a religion.

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Post by solenoid0937 »

delbronski wrote: post #258
xvector wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Oh yeah, no you are right. Sorry for focusing on that little part of space and time where I and everyone I know and love is alive and being affected by our decisions. How dumb of me!

It actually is genuinely wrong to prioritize your little bit of space and time over the needs of the species as a whole and the benefit of untold future billions.

If everyone thought like you we'd be stuck in the pre-Industrial phase. How miserable that would be!

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Post by _doctor_love »

keybored wrote: post #278
_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…

A post supposedly about being bored of talking about AI. But psyche, it’s the same AI talking points. And psyche, the top comment is the same sentiment about how the truly skilled will finally have their time to shine. I don’t know if it’s the Universe delivering this farce or it’s the emergent LLM Singularity.

> how the truly skilled will finally have their time to shine.

That's not what I said. I said that those who are already shining, are now shining even brighter. Give a great craftsman a new tool and he will find a way to apply it. If it is valueless, he will throw it away.

For what it's worth, your comment is also an HN trope, the disaffected low-effort armchair keyboard warrior.

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Post by heliumtera »

_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…

>They’re just flying with it right now.

Where are they flying and why software has gone to shit?

Maybe this super stars programmers have to keep their reality breaking technology secret, but everything has not only degraded, but turned to absolute trash.

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Post by keybored »

_doctor_love wrote: post #284
keybored wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A post supposedly about being bored of talking about AI. But psyche, it’s the same AI talking points. And psyche, the top comment is the same sentiment about how the truly skilled will finally have their time to shine. I don’t know if it’s the Universe delivering this farce or it’s the emergent LLM Singularity.

> how the truly skilled will finally have their time to shine. That's not what I said. I said that those who are already shining, are now shining even brighter. Give a great craftsman a new tool and he will find a way to apply it. If it is valueless, he will throw it away. For what it's worth, your comment is also an HN trope, the disaffected low-effort armchair keyboard warrior.

Expressing a negative sentiment is a trope now?

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by scorpioxy »

cyanydeez wrote: post #214
_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…

Isn't that scary though: A bunch of people are going to be forced to use a tool that keeps them ignorant and they absolutely won't know if it's doing correct things, to the point that as you retire, the next crop is going to be much less involved in knowing whats going on. It's what happened with the internet and computer usage. As Apple made it easier to get online with zero computer knowledge, suddenly we're electi…

To me, it is very scary. I know people who have sort of "outsourced" their critical thinking to chatgpt. So to me it's extra scary when I see it outside technical circles. They'll just believe whatever that generation of LLM tells them because it is doing it so confidentially and never question or check the information. Maybe I'm naive but I thought easier access to knowledge was supposed to make us more intelligent, not less.

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Post by solenoid0937 »

SyneRyder wrote: post #248
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

Honestly, I think there's a big divide, and those of us who are using AI intensively might just be increasingly "going dark" & distancing ourselves from those "real world" people. It's becoming detrimental being around people who are so actively negative about AI. It feels like being around people who still insist the sun orbits the earth. Those people are actually happier believing what they believe, so why spend an…

> It feels like being around people who still insist the sun orbits the earth.

100% feeling this divide as well.

People that deny the benefit of AI in 2026... I can't even engage with them anymore. I just move on with my life. These people are simply not living in reality, it will catch up to them eventually (unfortunately.)

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Post by buzarchitect »

selimthegrim wrote: post #275
buzarchitect wrote: post #24

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This resonates. I build products on top of LLMs, and the most interesting work I do has nothing to do with AI; it's designing structured methodologies, figuring out what data to feed in before a conversation starts, deciding what to do when the model gives a weak answer. The AI is plumbing. But nobody wants to hear about prompt calibration or pipeline architecture. They want to hear "I replaced my whole team with age…

Now do it with knowledge or causal graphs

Causal graphs are interesting, but in my experience, the bottleneck isn't the representation; it's getting the model to actually follow through on weak signals instead of moving on to the next topic. A graph won't help if the system doesn't know what to do when it hits a node that doesn't resolve cleanly. What's your experience been with them?

Re: Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

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Post by nitwit005 »

Many of AI articles that I see on Hacker News just don't seem particularly interesting, and the comments end up heavily talking about AI in general, rather than the article.

> seems to have devolved into three different people’s (almost identical) Claude code workflow

I do feel like I've seen a number of those articles.

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