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Re: Something Big Is Happening

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Post by hagbarth »

aero9188 wrote: post #19

> You can describe an app to AI and have a working version in an hour. I'm not exaggerating. I do this regularly. If you've always wanted to write a book but couldn't find the time or struggled with the writing, you can work with AI to get it done. Interesting. So you regularly make new apps in 1 hour each. How is that the same as...writing a book? Did you mean write several short stories? Or are we talking non-ficti…

Also if a person always wanted to write a book I don’t think prompting an AI will scratch that itch.

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Post by stoneforger »

hyperhello wrote: post #7

I find these water-against-a-rock literary tones so tedious. Even the writer always seems to have to go back and put some of it in BOLD TEXT, supposedly highlighting the main ideas, but really optical affordances. The truth of this seems much more banal. Computing has become a major drag. There have been tens of thousands of libraries that reinvent the wheel. Every operating system has become a toy. All major languag…

Because if we engineered these to work, then we'd be out of a job because the problems would be solved and we could not sell the same service or software 1000 times.

Re: Something Big Is Happening

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Post by macNchz »

entech wrote: post #84

To me, this is highlighting the fall of modern media - people have lost trust in MSM and have flocked to 'influencers' and 'thought leaders'. There is no checking for credibility, veracity of claims, or any relevant expertise. This is basically vibe news, sentiment peddling. I could say AI is here - we don't even need to do research anymore. All I need to say is: "Claude, cure cancer", go away for 4 hours to drink my…

Absolutely agreed—seeing this post continue to circulate across all forms of media with seemingly zero critical thinking or evaluation of its author’s credibility reminds me of the Zoolander “I feel I’m taking crazy pills” meme.

I remembered this guy from his “Reflection 70b” scam in 2024. That should have basically put his credibility at zero, but clearly it has not.

I found this interaction in the HN comments from the time of that minor scandal to be prescient:

>> It's amazing what people will do for clout. His whole reputation is ruined. What was Schumer's endgame?

> But does reputation work? Will people google "Matt Shumer scam", "HyperWrite scam", "OthersideAI scam", "Sahil Chaudhary scam", "Glaive AI scam" before using their products? He wasted everyone's time, but what's the downside for him? Lots of influencers did fraud, and they do just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41485180

Re: Something Big Is Happening

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Post by hulitu »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #29
waku888 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But I think we're in world where very soon, companies will be demanding their engineering departments converge to the lived experience of the people who are seeing something like the author. We already live in that world. It's called "Hey Siri", "Hey Google", and "Alexa". It seems that no amount of executive tantrum has caused any of these tools to give a convergent experience.

Voice assistants, which I've used less than 10 times in my life, are hardly related to what I'm talking about.

They are very related: the only thing they can get with 100% reliability is spying.

Re: Something Big Is Happening

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Post by hulitu »

psiszj wrote: post #11

What’s the point in using these tools if they’re gonna replace us in a few years? It’s weird the author says that but then his conclusion is basically “go spend money on stuff I’m invested in”. Covid comparison is apt. I remember being insanely scared in Jan 2020 when those videos of Chinese people dropping dead were coming out (and being shamed by most of my peers etc). Few months later it was starting to become obv…

> when those videos of Chinese people dropping dead were coming out

Some people really need to be told not to believe everything they see on the media.

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Post by everdrive »

whynotminot wrote: post #25
acjohnson55 wrote: post #14

I am not having the exact same experience as the author--Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 seem more incremental to me than what he is describing--but if we're on an exponential curve, the difference is a rounding error. 4 months ago, I tried to build an application mostly vibe-coded. I got impressively far for what I thought was possible, but it bogged down. This past weekend, my friend had OpenClaw build an application of sim…

> But I think we're in world where very soon, companies will be demanding their engineering departments converge to the lived experience of the people who are seeing something like the author. I think this part is very real. If you’re in this thread saying “I don’t get it” you are in danger much faster than your coworker who is using it every day and succeeding at getting around AI’s quirks to be productive.

But here's the thing I don't get. I can see the argument for AI endangering our jobs. But why does this also mean that rapid adoption of AI on a personal level of is so important? In an AI world, there could be a new bell curve of talent and a fight to stay ahead. So ... adopt early so you're the one not left behind. (and implicitly, most other people are left behind?)

If AI tightens down the job market I just don't see why there would need to be this frantic urgency to adopt it. Getting a small head start might not mean very much once the dust has settled. Employers will still be cutting, and there will still be new blood who will adapt to new technology faster than you can.

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