Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
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Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#2Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere.
Fascinating, but all too expected.
Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "waste" you're cutting are human beings needing a job.
Hey, I do it too. But we have to recognize that as we go further down this road this whole notion of removing all social safety nets, if you don't have a job then just go off and die mentality that we have has to shift. We can either be smart and figure out how to make this transition peacefully, or we can be stupid and endure a violent revolution that's going to wipe out the value of our capital assets, and in general wreak havoc in our lives. Many of us here on HN have a lot to lose in this scenario.
Our choice.
I suggest we choose wisely.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#3Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#4Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such, I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is exactly what this backlash is about.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#5Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
Not sure this is what is going on here. Most developers I know don't feel threatened by LLMs.
From the opening paragraph of the article.
> incorrect AI summaries above its search results. ...the AI may tell you to drink urine to get rid of kidney stones, and you'll have to scroll past that "advice" to find links to articles from human doctors.
Pretty sure that's what it's about.
The number of ads you need to scroll through is bad enough.
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Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#6Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
I don't understand how you think AI overviews threaten the existence of developers.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#7Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
You don't seem self consistent in your beliefs. Not even an hour ago you commented on a thread that self-driving vehicles will not exist any time in the near future, and yet here you're proposing that "ai" is going to replace developers soon?
You believe that "ai" will be capable of the logical gymnastics that development requires, to replace developers, but that the same level of "ai" isn't anywhere near capable of taking in camera/sensor input and outputting proper accelerate/turn outputs in order to drive a vehicle?
In my mind the self-driving case is an easier, special case, subset of the task of general programming.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#8Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
The summary product is a gimmick, takes too long and it’s being force fed to users.
People wouldn’t complain if it was useful.
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#9Now that there's a technology threatening the continued existence of developers, we're seeing a backlash here on HN and elsewhere. Fascinating, but all too expected. Just remember how you feel now when working on projects putting other people out of work and consider the ramifications of what you're doing. What's that you say? You're just streamlining processes and cutting waste? Hate to inform you, some of that "was…
The summary product is a gimmick, takes too long and it’s being force fed to users. People wouldn’t complain if it was useful.
A better criterion, I think, is if it's consistently correct. I know, if it isn't consistently correct, it won't be useful; but it's easier to measure "correct" than "useful."
(And correct with respect to what is generally known. If there had been a pre-Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, "correct" would have been "conforms to Newton's theory of gravity.")
Re: Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s not what this is about at all. This is about opting out of a bad GenAI experience that gets in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.
This is just one article out of many that I've noticed here on HN over the past few weeks that are very anti-AI. As such, I have a sneaky suspicion that what I wrote is exactly what this backlash is about.
I have really huge reservations about LLMs, but a fear that they will replace me as a dev is certainly not one of them.
And while I can't speak for anybody but myself, I have never heard a dev I personally know express any real concern that they're going to be replaced by "AI". The ones who express professional concerns are mostly worried that AI is going to remove the aspects of software development that they enjoy.