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by tomhow 1y ago
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- roschdal 1y agoAI is for people without natural intelligence.
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- bboygravity 1y agoSo it's for 90+ percent of society? Sounds like good business to me.
- block_dagger 1y agoDownvotes are for comments like yours
- satyrun 1y agoYea just average IQ like Terence Tao. All you are really saying with this comment is you have an incredibly narrow set of interests and absolutely no intellectual curiosity.
- 7r8fze937fjd 1y ago[flagged]
- paradite 1y agoThis is obviously AI generated, if that matters. And I have an AI workflow that generates much better posts than this.
- Retr0id 1y agoI think it's just written by someone who reads a lot of LLM output - lots of lists with bolded prefixes. Maybe there was some AI-assistance (or a lot), but I didn't get the impression that it was AI-generated as a whole.
- paradite 1y ago"Hard truth" and "reality check" in the same post is dead giveaway. I read and generate hundreds of posts every month. I have to read books on writing to keep myself sane and not sound like an AI.
- Retr0id 1y agoTrue, the graphs are also wonky - the curves don't match the supposed math.
- queenkjuul 1y agoYeah that was confusing to me
- squigglydonut 1y agoAbsolutely! And you're right to think that. Here's why...
- kookamamie 1y agoApplogies! You're exactly right, here's how this spans out…
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- jrexilius 1y agoThe thing that sucks about it is maybe his english is bad (not his native language) so he relies on LLM output for his posts. Im inclined to cut people slack for this. But the rub is that it is indistinguishable from spam/slop generated for marketing/ads/whatever. Or it's possible that he is one of those people that _realy_ adopted LLMs into _all_ their workflow, I guess, and he thinks the output is good enough as is, because it captured his general points? LLMs have certainly damaged trust in general internet reading now, that's for sure.
- iamnotagenius 1y ago[dead]
- paradite 1y agoI am not pro or against AI-generated posts. I was just making an observation and testing my AI classifier.
- fleebee 1y agoThe graphs don't line up. I'm inclined to believe they were hallucinated by an LLM and the author either didn't check them or didn't care. Judging by the other comments this is clearly low-effort AI slop. > LLMs have certainly damaged trust in general internet reading now, that's for sure. I hate that this is what we have to deal with now.
- stavros 1y agoI don't know why you do. I found the article interesting, derived value from it. I don't care if it's an LLM or a human that gave me the value. I don't see why it should matter.
- fleebee 1y agoIt matters to me for so many reasons that I can't go over them all here. Maybe we have different priorities, and that's fine. One reason why LLM generated text bothers me is because there's no conscious, coherent mind behind it. There's no communicative intent because language models are inherently incapable of it. When I read a blog post, I subconsciously create a mental model of the author, deduce what kind of common ground we might have and use this understanding to interpret the text. When I learn that an LLM generated a text I've read, that mental model shatters and I feel like I was lied to. It was just a machine pretending to be a human, and my time and attention could've been used to read something written by a living being. I read blogs to learn about the thoughts of other humans. If I wanted to know what an LLM thought about the state of vibe coding, I could just ask one at any time.
- delis-thumbs-7e 1y agoI wonder why a person from Bombay India might use AI to aid with an English language blog post… Perhaps more interesting is whether their argument is valid and whether their math is correct.
- iamnotagenius 1y ago[dead]
- rvz 1y agoLet's get a timer to watch this fall off the front page of HN in minutes. "We can't allow this post to create FUD about the current hype on AI agents and we need the scam to continue as long as possible".
- vntok 1y agoGenerally speaking, low quality posts don't spend too much time on the front page, regardless of their topic.
- saadatq 1y agowe need a flag button for “written by AI”. I’m at this stage where I’m fine with AI generated content. Sure, the verbosity sucks - but there’s an interesting idea here, but make it clear that you’ve used AI, and show your prompts.
- rvz 1y ago... and it's gone. Stopped the timer on 2 hours and 38 mins.
- Simon_O_Rourke 1y agoDon't tell management about this, as they're all betting the house on AI agents next year.
- pmg101 1y agoOnly one of these outcomes will be correct, so worth putting money on it if you think they're wrong a la The Big Short.
- DavidPiper 1y agoNot OP, but I've been thinking about this and concluded it's not quite so clear-cut. If I was going to go down this path, I think I would bet on competitors, rather than against incumbents. My thinking: In a financial system collapse (a la The Big Short), the assets under analysis are themselves the things of value. Whereas betting on AI to collapse a technology business is at least one step removed from actual valuation, even assuming: 1. AI Agents do deliver just enough, and stay around long enough, for big corporations to lay off large number of employees 2. After doing so, AI quickly becomes prohibitively expensive for the business 3. The combination of the above factors tank business productivity In the event of a perfect black swan, the trouble is that it's not actually clear that this combination of factors would result in concrete valuation drops. The business just "doesn't ship as much" or "ships more slowly". This is bad, but it's only really bad if you have competitors that can genuinely capitalise on that stall. An example immediately on-hand: for non-AI reasons, the latest rumors are that Apple's next round of Macbook Pros will be delayed. This sucks. But isn't particularly damaging to the company's stock price because there isn't really a competitor in the market that can capitalise on that delay in a meaningful way. Similarly, I couldn't really tell you what the most recent non-AI software features shipped by Netflix or Facebook or X actually were. How would I know if they're struggling internally and have stopped shipping features because AI is too expensive and all their devs were laid off? I guess if you're looking for a severe black swan to bet against AI Agents in general, you'd need to find a company that was so entrenched and so completely committed to and dependent on AI that they could not financially survive a shock like that AND they're in a space where competitors will immediately seize advantage. Don't get me wrong though, even if there's no opportunity to actually bet against that situation, it will still suck for literally everyone if it eventuates.
- d4rkn0d3z 1y ago"Let's do the math. " This phrase is usually followed by some, you know...Math?
- Gigachad 1y agoThe article is slop. That’s just a phrase ChatGPT uses a lot.
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- raincole 1y ago> In a Nutshell > AI tools aren't perfect yet. They sometimes make mistakes, and they can't always understand what you are trying to do. But they're getting better all the time, In the future, they will be more powerful and helpful. They'll be able to understand your code even better, and they'll be able to generate even more creative ideas. From another post on the same site. [0] Yup, slop. [0]: https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/review-of-coding-tools/ https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/review-of-coding-tools/
- cmsefton 1y ago2015? The title should be 2025.
- RustyRussell 1y ago2015? Title is correct, this is a typo
- tomhow 1y agoSorry about that, my fault, moderating from my phone.
- kerkeslager 1y agoReal question: what's the best way to short AI right now?
- arealaccount 1y agoJust short any of the publicly traded companies with AI based valuations? Nvida, Meta? Seems like an awful idea but I'm often wrong.
- stavros 1y agoI mean, I wouldn't bet against AI, but I'm also not certain the current AI company valuations are realistic.
- kerkeslager 1y agoNvidia and Meta are both involved in a lot more than AI. There are maybe other reasons to short Meta, but either is definitely not a pure AI play.