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I hate AI side projects

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Re: I hate AI side projects

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Post by elliotbnvl »

Mongoose wrote: post #18

I think this is less about the projects themselves and more about distribution channels like HN and ProductHunt being dead. When the zone is flooded by vibecoded apps of all kinds, the "build it and they will come" era of getting your thing on a popular website's homepage is over. But other distribution strategies exist. You just have to be smarter about finding and getting in front of your core audience.

What kinds of other distribution strategies are you thinking of?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

getnormality wrote: post #13

Blog posts by authors claiming AI has transformed them into godlike engines of productivity: 103728369129 Interviews by celebrities predicting AI will revolutionize the economy: 2837191001747 Software and online things I've used that seem to be better than they were before ChatGPT was introduced: 0

To be fair there is this persistent paradox about programming methodologies is that no matter how much they seem to speed you up, or how effective they seem to be at reducing bugs, this doesn't seem to give you any material competitive advantage over companies going for the most conservative language and methodology choices.

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Post by Bukhmanizer »

simonw wrote: post #5

I think the main effect of the current influx of low effort AI side projects is that it's going to significantly increase the bar for what's worth showing people. Six months ago no-one would post a "Show HN" for a static personal website they had built for themselves - it wouldn't be novel or interesting enough to earn any attention. That bar just went through the ROOF. I expect it will take a few more months for the…

I agree that’s kind of what should happen. What seems to have happened is that people have figured out it’s easier to game the system than produce more complicated or technical projects.

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Post by tjr »

getnormality wrote: post #13

Blog posts by authors claiming AI has transformed them into godlike engines of productivity: 103728369129 Interviews by celebrities predicting AI will revolutionize the economy: 2837191001747 Software and online things I've used that seem to be better than they were before ChatGPT was introduced: 0

I don't think it's quite at trillions to zero, but I do think the numbers are way, way out of balance so far. I'm still at the point where, if AI disappeared tomorrow, I would be, at worst, mildly inconvenienced.

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Post by acedTrex »

The influx if these sorts of posts have largely pushed me out of all my previous "programmer" online spots.

I have zero interest in seeing something that Claude emitted that the author could never in a million years have written it themselves.

Its baffling to me these people think anyone cares about what their claude prompt output.

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Post by sodapopcan »

acheron wrote: post #29
khalic wrote: post #8

It’s funny because I hate these “I hate stuff” articles.

“I hate stuff” articles considered harmful.

The internet is only for training data and praising any and all technological progress. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself. Self-expression has no place here!

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Post by ojr »

getnormality wrote: post #13

Blog posts by authors claiming AI has transformed them into godlike engines of productivity: 103728369129 Interviews by celebrities predicting AI will revolutionize the economy: 2837191001747 Software and online things I've used that seem to be better than they were before ChatGPT was introduced: 0

Google Search has gotten better unless you think AI mode is a downgrade, the alternative of having a wikipedia article, reddit post or random website as the first result is not better technically maybe morally for you but not matter of factually. The average user does less manual filtering.

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Post by janice1999 »

simonw wrote: post #5

I think the main effect of the current influx of low effort AI side projects is that it's going to significantly increase the bar for what's worth showing people. Six months ago no-one would post a "Show HN" for a static personal website they had built for themselves - it wouldn't be novel or interesting enough to earn any attention. That bar just went through the ROOF. I expect it will take a few more months for the…

The problem is that the effort required to understand the quality of a project has also gone through the roof (and not just due to the number of them). Good looking READMEs and docs, large test suites, well constructed code - LLMs can generate credible versions that take time to digest and understand the limitations of. AI is fantastic at faking the outward signals of a good project and hyping it up. I've lost count of the projects that appear here and on Reddit that initially look good but fall apart once a domain expert spends the time to dig into it.

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Post by [deleted] »

elliotbnvl wrote: post #31
Mongoose wrote: post #18

I think this is less about the projects themselves and more about distribution channels like HN and ProductHunt being dead. When the zone is flooded by vibecoded apps of all kinds, the "build it and they will come" era of getting your thing on a popular website's homepage is over. But other distribution strategies exist. You just have to be smarter about finding and getting in front of your core audience.

What kinds of other distribution strategies are you thinking of?

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