I hate AI side projects
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I hate AI side projects
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#2I think this problem will start to fix itself as people start to set a higher bar for what they share (or set policies restricting projects that don't show effort).
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#3What I hate is people posting links to their blog post which upon viewing is really just an extended twitter sized rant.
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#4What I hate is people posting links to their blog post which upon viewing is really just an extended twitter sized rant.
Why? What's the cutoff point of length that you would accept? If they'd used AI to artificially increase the length of their content, would you be happier?
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#5I 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 new norms to settle in, at which point hopefully we'll start seeing absurdly cool side projects that would not have been feasible beforehand.
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#6I dont think the side projects or the ai is the problem. It's the perception of the quality and our filtering that needs adaption. Ai has changed the amount of content that is generated by a huge margin, and it is generally difficult to tell how much work went into something. And lesser experienced people do an even worse job in that.
We are likely going to get better in judging this new communication and media. But we need much more experience in it, until we can do that properly.
It will be annoying for quite a while, as it was with social media, until we found the places that are still worth our time and attention. But i am hopeful that we will be able to do that.
Until then i am going to work on my AI side project every evening until i deem it ready and bug free. It already works well enough for my own purposes (which i made it for) and my requirements were heavily influenced by my work process. I would never have been able to finish such a project, even with full time working on it over a year without AI.
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#7Upvoting not because I necessarily agree, but because I think it's a conversation worth having. I personally think it's great that "everyone can build" now. I don't have to deal with "product people" telling me about their "billion dollar idea" anymore. Just go build it, bro.
Productizing anything is hard and writing code with AI is basically impossible to do reliably, securely, and at scale unless you're already an expert in what you're trying to do. For example, working on a project now, and it's kind of endearing watching my AI buddy run into every single pothole I ran into when I first started working with Tauri or Rust.
Unless you know what you're doing (and why you're doing it), AI suggestions are in the best case benign, and in the worst case architectural disasters. Very rarely, I'm like "hm that might be a good idea."
I think AI-aided development will raise the bar for products and makes expert engineers like 10x more valuable. Personally, I'm elated that I don't have to write my 4000th React boilerplate or Rust logging helper anymore.
And the real, actual hard work (as in: coming up with new algorithms for novel problems, breaking problems down so others can understand them, splitting up code/modules in a way that makes sense for another person, etc.) will likely never be doable by AI.
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#8It’s funny because I hate these “I hate stuff” articles.
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#10I 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’ve felt the same. I’ve had two things on the pre-LLM front page after about a month of work each. Those exist in the framework of my personal site which I’d been building out for a year.
I suspect a month of AI accelerated work is still enough to make the front page. I don’t see the competition as steeper. I bet it’s about the same per unit time.