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The blog post title is a joke about the AI hype.
by antirez 9mo ago
The blog post title is a joke about the AI hype.
- iLoveOncall 9mo agoWell it completely misses the mark, because your whole article IS hyping up AI, and probably more than anything I've seen before honestly. If it's all meant to be ironical, it's a huge failure and people will use it to support their AI hype.
- antirez 9mo agoI was not clear enough. I wanted to write a PRO-AI blog post. The people against AI always say negative things with using as central argument that "AI is hyped and overhyped". So I, for fun, consider the anti-AI movement a form of hype. It's a joke but not in the sense it does not mean what it means.
- iLoveOncall 9mo ago[flagged]
- menaerus 9mo agoWhat's wrong with you? Let people express their experience without calling them mentally ill. Put yourself together.
- zahlman 9mo agoThe comment was flagged and killed; the system works. Please don't respond to personal attacks with personal attacks.
- simonw 9mo ago> Anyone claiming "Writing code is no longer needed for the most part" is not a serious software engineer. You need to recalibrate. Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 represent a very real change. I would phrase this as "typing the code out by hand is no longer needed for the most part", which I think is what antirez was getting at here.
- iLoveOncall 9mo agoAnd I'm sure if you go back to the release of 3.5, you'll see the exact same comments. And when 5 comes out, I'm sure I'll see you commenting "OK I agree 6 months ago but now with Claude 5 Opus it's great". It's really the weirdest type of goalpost moving. I have used Opus 4.5 a lot lately and it's garbage, absolutely useless for anything beyond generating trivial shit for which I'd anyway use a library or have it already integrated in the framework I use. I think the real reason your opinion has changed in 6 months is because your skills have atrophyed. It's all as bad as 6 months ago, and even as bad as 2 years ago, you've just become worse.
- simonw 9mo ago> And I'm sure if you go back to the release of 3.5, you'll see the exact same comments. Not from people whose opinions on that I respect. Credible software developers I know were impressed by Claude 3.5 but none of them were saying "I don't type out code by hand any more". Now they are. If you think LLMs today are "as bad as 2 years ago" then I don't respect your opinion. That's not a credible thing to say.
- somewhereoutth 9mo agoHowever, as you point out, anti-AI people are pushing back against hype, not indulging in hype themselves - not least as nobody is trying to sell 'not-AI'. I for one look forward to the next AI winter, which I hope will be long, deep, and savage.
- danielbln 9mo agoThere are too many people who see the absurd AI hype (especially absurd in terms of investment) and construct a counter-argument with it that AI is useless, overblown and just generally not good. And that's a fallacy. Two things can be true at the same time. Coding agents are a step change and immensely useful, and the valuations and breathless AGI evangelizing is a smoke screen and pure hype. Don't let hype deter you to get your own hands dirty and try shit.