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Whenever i open HN, there's a pro-A"I" post which makes me almost question if intellectual labor will be useful in a few years. Yet when i try to use these too
by martin-t 2y ago
Whenever i open HN, there's a pro-A"I" post which makes me almost question if intellectual labor will be useful in a few years.
Yet when i try to use these tools, they fall short. They can probably be useful for generating half broken prototypes quickly because speed is more important that quality. But for real code, especially long term, they just never seem to end up breaking even.
This post somewhat restored my confidence in the world's sanity. There are still people who care about quality and who are willing to call bullshit bullshit.
EDIT: The most important part is that he links to tons of examples from other people. There's clearly a sizeable group of people who are not being heard often enough.
- schneems 2y agoFYI the post is from she/her.
- blibble 2y ago> Whenever i open HN, there's a pro-A"I" post which makes me almost question if intellectual labor will be useful in a few years. HN is infested with grifters, sorry, entrepreneurs think that A"I" is their ticket to quick and easy riches part of the confidence trick is keeping up the charade that A"I" is actually intelligent and not just a sophisticated bullshit generator and if what you saw when you honestly tried using it last week was bad, then that's no longer state of the art, the latest model will fix everything, see, this latest benchmark they-definitely-didnt-cheat-on says so
- namaria 2y agoHackers and Founders meetup near me has become mostly just founders and they are all high on the LLM fumes. It's very weird.
- martin-t 2y agoI don't even see why "hackers" and "founders" should be related in any way. The hacker attitude (or approach to life) is that of curiosity and the need to build and create. The founder attitude AFAICT is how to get competent builders together and make money (on the positive end of the spectrum) or how to extract value from people instead of creating it (on the negative end of the spectrum). I googled it and got "Hackers/Founders is a community of tech founders." I think that is sufficiently telling of what it's really about. It's another scam to "get those socially inept nerds to work for us and make us money without even realizing they are getting less than they deserve".
- namaria 2y agoIt's just a meet up man. You go there, meet some people, have some conversations. Sharing information is the quintessential non zero sum game humans play.
- martin-t 2y agoFor me the biggest indicator of how much bullshit A"I" is, is how the A"I" tools themselves are bad. Visual Studio still doesn't have an "accept one suggested word" shortcut. If your LLM is so great, why don't you make it add that feature, Microsoft?