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Childish or no, anti-AI sentiment is ubiquitous and growing. From a PR perspective there’s a lot to gain in the short term by picking the “anti-AI” lane. And y
by neutronicus 3mo ago
Childish or no, anti-AI sentiment is ubiquitous and growing.
From a PR perspective there’s a lot to gain in the short term by picking the “anti-AI” lane. And you can always change your mind later.
- CrimsonRain 3mo agoIt's ubiquitous among dinosaurs. Don't worry. They will be left behind.
- speedster217 3mo ago[flagged]
- semiquaver 3mo agoReal engineers don’t eschew powerful engineering tools because of what their political tribe says about them.
- slopinthebag 3mo agoReal engineers aren't vibe coding. Please don't mistake Bun, Claude Code, web development et al, etc, as "engineering".
- pcstl 3mo agoWhat is real engineering?
- 12345hn6789 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
- CrimsonRain 3mo agoReal engineers do real engineering with all tools at their disposal. Don't cry about one specific tool because it hurts their childish feelings...but you keep crying. It is ok to be a dino.
- neutronicus 3mo ago[dead]
- orangedog 3mo agoSurveys show that 60% of US adults don't like it which means 40% either don't care or do. I'd advise not getting your ideas about sentiment towards it from places like HN which are very biased and unrepresentative places of anything. I find the anti crowd increasingly to be hateful and close-minded and it is disappointing because I have a lot of friends in it. There's a moral puritanism which gives people feelings that they are on the "right" side and thus any level of rudeness or hatred is justified and it only hurts their side.
- neutronicus 3mo agoI don’t disagree with your characterization. But from a purely Machiavellian perspective I don’t see a lot of downside in courting this group in the short term.
- voidhorse 3mo agoI'm not anti-AI at all but to call people who don't want to use it "moral puritans" is laughable. It's hard to read that as anything other than a self-report on your own extreme nonchalance when it comes to the many ethical thickets surrounding this technology. While the possible benefits of AI in fields like medicine are promising, the concerns that a lot of people have about LLMs and the supporting infrastructure, power shifts, and more that have come along with them are diverse, serious, and completely understandable, and I can't imagine them being "puritan" to anyone other than those ruthlessly driven by nothing but capitalistic self-interest.
- newaccountman2 3mo agoI just don't see how it's different from the pre-LLM landscape, personally. The takes I have seen about the "ethical thickets" all call out things that could have concerned the authors before LLMs, but which apparently did not.
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- duxup 3mo agoIs popular sentiment a good measure for a decision? Anti lots of things have been growing at some points in history, including bad things.
- neutronicus 3mo agoMy point is that it’s a non-decision. You can use AI later, when the models are better. In the short term, you can address the anti-AI market.
- abc42 3mo agoOr perhaps it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations and the people with anti-AI sentiment are called "laggards". If so, their amount will likely be near zero soon. This has happened thousands of times in human history.
- neutronicus 3mo agoSure. That’s why I said “short-term” and “change your mind later”. The thing about laggards is their money spends the same as everyone else’s.