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Not the OP, but I'm sick to death of hearing about AI The hype around it is ridiculous. I don't personally find it nearly as useful as people are saying, so ev

Not the OP, but I'm sick to death of hearing about AI The hype around it is ridiculous. I don't personally find it nearly as useful as people are saying, so everything feels like people are trying to gaslight me Don't get me wrong, it's cool tech. Amazing stuff. I just personally don't have much interest in it until it's much more reliable for the things I want to use it for And I'm really exhausted, tired of hearing about how this is going to replace people like me any minute now

ryandrake 1y ago
> And I'm really exhausted, tired of hearing about how this is going to replace people like me any minute now I'm kind of exhausted in general (year after year) of frankly unimaginative engineers who should know better, latching on to whatever is the latest soup of the month, and touting it here as the greatest human achievement since fire.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  I do wish that there was a good place to talk about interesting stuff with people online that was a bit more resistant to both the extreme hype and the extreme pessimism HN threads very often feel like whichever side posted first winds up dominating the thread, it's bizarre I see the comments on some articles that are massively pro AI all upvoted to the top, then the comments on another article and it's all the negative AI comments upvoted It's weirdly echo-chambery on a post by post basis
  - Karrot_Kream 1y ago
    Yeah this has been the worst development in HN culture as HN has grown in my experience. To make things worse the extremity of the hype and pessimism just creates a huge flamewar where each side is dedicated to using the worst strawmen to undermine the other side. Personally I just started treating this site as a sophisticated shitposting place and started actually talking about tech in group chats with friends who work in the industry. Increasingly I see folks refer to the content here in the same breath as Reddit so I don't think I'm the only one. It's probably just a scale problem. When a website becomes big enough it becomes dominated by the folks with the most time to post and the most passionate opinions.
    - bluefirebrand 1y ago
      > Personally I just started treating this site as a sophisticated shitposting place and started actually talking about tech in group chats with friends who work in the industry Yeah... I think this is probably smart. I wish I had that, I don't have a lot of friends in the industry Something to work

ryandrake 1y ago

> And I'm really exhausted, tired of hearing about how this is going to replace people like me any minute now I'm kind of exhausted in general (year after year) of frankly unimaginative engineers who should know better, latching on to whatever is the latest soup of the month, and touting it here as the greatest human achievement since fire.

bluefirebrand 1y ago
I do wish that there was a good place to talk about interesting stuff with people online that was a bit more resistant to both the extreme hype and the extreme pessimism HN threads very often feel like whichever side posted first winds up dominating the thread, it's bizarre I see the comments on some articles that are massively pro AI all upvoted to the top, then the comments on another article and it's all the negative AI comments upvoted It's weirdly echo-chambery on a post by post basis
- Karrot_Kream 1y ago
  Yeah this has been the worst development in HN culture as HN has grown in my experience. To make things worse the extremity of the hype and pessimism just creates a huge flamewar where each side is dedicated to using the worst strawmen to undermine the other side. Personally I just started treating this site as a sophisticated shitposting place and started actually talking about tech in group chats with friends who work in the industry. Increasingly I see folks refer to the content here in the same breath as Reddit so I don't think I'm the only one. It's probably just a scale problem. When a website becomes big enough it becomes dominated by the folks with the most time to post and the most passionate opinions.
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    > Personally I just started treating this site as a sophisticated shitposting place and started actually talking about tech in group chats with friends who work in the industry Yeah... I think this is probably smart. I wish I had that, I don't have a lot of friends in the industry Something to work