Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The first 40 months of the AI era

lzon.ca

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 155 posts

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#91

Post by 59nadir »

Hekkova wrote: post #39

I would agree with the utility of Claude and Claude Code. Claude feels like your own executive assistant, sales team and IT department. Combine that with Claude Code and you can build some incredible things. Myself as an example, I used Claude to advise me on starting a business and building a MVP. After a few weeks of refinement I was able to create something I never could have done without Claude. It is a game chan…

If it was any good at sales I'm pretty sure a company I did a contract for would be thriving by now. Instead they have a product that is ~500 times faster than the competition, with better UX for the most common activity in that field and much better built-in analysis tools for end results, run in real-time (which competitor software cannot do). Sure, it's not a massive market in terms of demographics, but I'd expect real sales people to succeed with what they have. Something very real has gone wrong with sales and it's not something they've been able to solve using LLMs.

I know this company uses LLMs, because I'm working on another project for them where one of the co-founders is relentlessly spamming the repo with overwrought Claude Code output like there is no tomorrow. This shit sucks at code generation and it most likely sucks at everything else too, except people often assume it's better at things they don't know about.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#92

Post by heavyset_go »

raincole wrote: post #87
heavyset_go wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An important aspect of comparison is that nobody is going to tell you that your surgery is noticeable or looks bad. Your friends, family, partners, coworkers, aren't going to say anything, neither are people you meet casually, certainly not service workers, strangers aren't going to pull you aside to tell you the truth about your nose job, etc. I hope the same social taboo doesn't transfer over to AI content. We shou…

Your friends, family, partners, coworkers, aren't going to say anything about your natural appearance either. Unless they're super rude.

People will tell you if you're good looking

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#94

Post by alex43578 »

Rapzid wrote: post #78
theteapot wrote: post #35

> While I’m certain that this technology is producing some productivity improvements, I’m still genuinely (and frustratingly) unsure just how much of an improvement it is actually creating. I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. A lot of the time, I'm resorting to using an AI because I…

I feel like Google search results have gotten tremendously worse over the past 2 years too. It's almost like you have to use AI search to find anything useful now. Which of course reduces traffic to sites and thus the incentives to create the content you're looking for in the first place :(

There’s many groups that “win” by making search results worse. It’s an ongoing battle between them, and if someone’s blaming solely Google for it, they’re way oversimplifying.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#95

Post by Gud »

raincole wrote: post #85
theteapot wrote: post #35

> While I’m certain that this technology is producing some productivity improvements, I’m still genuinely (and frustratingly) unsure just how much of an improvement it is actually creating. I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. A lot of the time, I'm resorting to using an AI because I…

> I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. Probably negligible. It's not a problem you can solve by pouring more money in. Evidence: configuration file format. I've never seen programmers who enjoy writing YAML. And pure JSON (without comments) is simply not a format should be written by…

JSON is not designed as a configuration file format.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#96

Post by holoduke »

The internet as we know it is dead. Websites will seize to exist in 2 years from now. On the fly UIs will be generated. Tailored exactly to your ad profile. Content will be either AI slop that's better than humans can ever make or products that are a perfect fit for your spendable part of your wallet

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#97

Post by cousin_it »

danappelxx wrote: post #86
jmalicki wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite thing is when some projects now have better documentation in their Claude skills or MCPs than they ever did for users.

There is natural incentive for engineers working on a project to keep Claude skills up to date. I cannot say the same for general documentation.

But maybe not for long. When we get long-running AIs, the knowledge locked inside the AI's thinking might supplant docs once again. Like if you had an engineer working at your company for a long time and knowing everything. With all the problems that implies, of course.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#98

Post by heavyset_go »

raincole wrote: post #85
theteapot wrote: post #35

> While I’m certain that this technology is producing some productivity improvements, I’m still genuinely (and frustratingly) unsure just how much of an improvement it is actually creating. I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. A lot of the time, I'm resorting to using an AI because I…

> I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. Probably negligible. It's not a problem you can solve by pouring more money in. Evidence: configuration file format. I've never seen programmers who enjoy writing YAML. And pure JSON (without comments) is simply not a format should be written by…

I love YAML, so there is at least one weirdo out there on the internet who is bitter that TOML and JSON won

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#99

Post by trenchgun »

SloppyDrive wrote: post #60

The biggest positive I have seen is not so much in the new tools, but in new ways to convince the higher ups to do sensible things. We always find that small teams of locals can do much much more than a team with an unlimited number of low cost "developers". Not just because the competence of low cost devs is poor, but also the structure of how you work changes for the worse with a bigger team, for the worse with a d…

Yes this + also APIs! Due to LLMs needing APIs suddenly things that were strictly behind GUI can easily opened up for programmatic use. Double edged sword, due to infosec etc concerns, but sure is nice for personal productivity automation.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

#100

Post by nasretdinov »

heavyset_go wrote: post #98
raincole wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I often wonder how much more productive I'd be if just a fraction the effort and money poured into LLMs was spent on better API documentation and conventional coding tools. Probably negligible. It's not a problem you can solve by pouring more money in. Evidence: configuration file format. I've never seen programmers who enjoy writing YAML. And pure JSON (without comments) is simply not a format should be written by…

I love YAML, so there is at least one weirdo out there on the internet who is bitter that TOML and JSON won

As a TOML and JSON fan I must say those formats definitely didn't win :). YAML did, by a really long shot too unfortunately
Post reply on HN