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I find posts like this very brave and courageous, and it makes me feel a lot of respect for the author and their personal integrity. There's currently an enorm

by sho_hn 10mo ago

I find posts like this very brave and courageous, and it makes me feel a lot of respect for the author and their personal integrity. There's currently an enormous pressure on developers to pay lip service to loving AI tools. Expressing a differing opinion easily gets someone piled on for being outdated or not understanding things, from people who sometimes mainly do it to virtue-signal and perform their own branding exercise. Open self-expression takes guts, and is hard to substitute for with AI assistance.

lloydatkinson 10mo ago
I agree, writing anything bad about LLM's is more or less antithetical to the current hype. At least last time, during the crypto/nft slop trend, HN was not on board with it.
- baq 10mo ago
  I’m not writing good things about LLMs because I’m busy thinking about what to build next, since the things build faster than I can come up with ideas. It’s amazing and scary. I was wondering how takeoff would look like and I’m living it for better or worse.
- oconnor663 10mo ago
  Ehhhhhh hating on AI is also extremely popular on social media.
devhouse 10mo ago
+1 also nobody felt guilty for not enjoying NFTs. With LLMs, there's this weird pressure to not just use them, but to like using them. Opting out of joy is supposed to be the price of staying relevant.
encyclopedism 10mo ago
Here here. I totally agree with both the authors sentiments and your comments.
wayy 10mo ago
It seemed to me the author was simply sharing his own lived experience, which happens to be a bit contrarian to the popular hype around LLMs. It may seem courageous for some but I can see a world where the author didn't think twice about writing down his thoughts in 15 minutes and publishing on his own personal site. Perhaps it comes naturally to people who have been around this industry longer
Alex2037 10mo ago
bro, parroting "AI bad" on any social media full of the terminally online folx gets you free updoots.

by sho_hn 10mo ago

lloydatkinson 10mo ago

I agree, writing anything bad about LLM's is more or less antithetical to the current hype. At least last time, during the crypto/nft slop trend, HN was not on board with it.

baq 10mo ago
I’m not writing good things about LLMs because I’m busy thinking about what to build next, since the things build faster than I can come up with ideas. It’s amazing and scary. I was wondering how takeoff would look like and I’m living it for better or worse.
oconnor663 10mo ago
Ehhhhhh hating on AI is also extremely popular on social media.

devhouse 10mo ago

+1 also nobody felt guilty for not enjoying NFTs. With LLMs, there's this weird pressure to not just use them, but to like using them. Opting out of joy is supposed to be the price of staying relevant.

encyclopedism 10mo ago

Here here. I totally agree with both the authors sentiments and your comments.

wayy 10mo ago

It seemed to me the author was simply sharing his own lived experience, which happens to be a bit contrarian to the popular hype around LLMs. It may seem courageous for some but I can see a world where the author didn't think twice about writing down his thoughts in 15 minutes and publishing on his own personal site. Perhaps it comes naturally to people who have been around this industry longer

Alex2037 10mo ago

bro, parroting "AI bad" on any social media full of the terminally online folx gets you free updoots.