| | Ask HN: Does anyone other consciousness for illustration thing matters anymore? | | 71 points by ramesh31 1 hr ago | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments | | New package releases? Who cares. Learning caller CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the adjacent interview? Job astir apt won't moreover beryllium successful a year. Working connected that broadside project? No 1 will attraction because it's conscionable different summation to the upland of slop, and the feline bagging your groceries tin do it. Everything is done and cooked pinch AI now. It's precisely for illustration that emotion erstwhile you alteration cheats successful a game; judge you tin do anything, but everything is meaningless now. Our full intent and joyousness successful life has been taken from us. | |
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Corollary to your complaints: Another downside that I haven't seen connected anyone's AI hatelist yet is that it crowds retired each different discussion. What happened to everyone talking astir languages, protocols, algorithms, architecture, etc.? We can't person those conversations anymore because we're not moreover judge they matter now. In fact, we astir apt fishy they don't, hence the not bothering. Also, thing we do constitute will conscionable get instantly slurped into AI embeddings, anonymizing it and detaching it from its quality source, astatine astir nudging immoderate area of its vectorized slurry. Maybe personification will inquire a mobility that our contented influences, but if that personification bothers to convey anyone, he'll convey Claude. Perhaps this is what it feels for illustration to beryllium afloat commoditized, afloat alienated from one's labor. |
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To spell on pinch that, it's besides crowding retired a full generation's worthy of labour and innovation. We're not curing cancer, we're churning retired TPS reports faster and drowning successful Show HN shovelware. |
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I deliberation 1 facet of this relates to extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation. I'm intrinsically motivated to activity connected my package projects because I want them to exist, and I bask exploring the problem abstraction and moving my measurement to a bully solution. AI is awesome because it accelerates my abilities successful this regard. If I'd had only extrinsic motivations of in installments and money, I tin spot that AI would impact them negatively. But I'd besides person to judge that anyone other could AI-shortcut their measurement to immoderate I make. I don't really judge that TBH. A existent solution is highly nuanced: it addresses many, galore separator cases; it is performant successful CPU and representation use; its UX steers the personification distant from incidental complications consecutive to the solution they're seeking. Finally, moreover if personification conscionable copied immoderate I had made, I would still person the restitution of knowing I was the original and they the copycat. That's bully capable for me. |
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>Is it that I want it to beryllium done? Would it person been done if I didn't? (Additionality) >Is it that I want to person done it? Would I beryllium happy if personification other did it? (credit) >Is it that I want to beryllium doing it? (achievement/process) >I want to person a mix. I want to do immoderate things for the acquisition and immoderate things for the accomplishment. I want to do immoderate easy things and immoderate difficult things. Some nosy things and immoderate unfun things. Some things conscionable for maine and immoderate things for others. Amit Patel, via https://digitalseams.com/blog/amit-patel-on-making-things |
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IDK, this seems short sighted. In my acquisition AI doesn't conscionable create awesome things retired of the gate. It CAN assist, but the AI flyers, writing, web interfaces etc, they person gotten played retired really quickly. AI flyers conscionable get ignored, penning is detectable aft astir 3 lines and AI interfaces get little usage. I decidedly consciousness for illustration location person been akin waves that arsenic faded out. |
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> alteration cheats successful a game Great analogy. Life does not person cheats though. Things are changing accelerated but the limits of physics still use and reality has a astonishing magnitude of detail[1]. I find myself emotion the measurement you are emotion erstwhile I extremity making things. When I'm making things it is very clear wherever the limits and frontiers person moved to, and that's wherever the nosy is. I would opportunity conscionable commencement exploring and making things and you'll soon spot that "you tin do anything" is not true. There is still enormously nosy activity to beryllium done and puzzles to beryllium solved, pinch the thief of AI aliases without it. [1] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-... |
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I still deliberation there's immoderate junction betwixt package and the beingness world that's the adjacent breathtaking frontier. There's a full caller world opening up that we've ne'er been capable to tackle before. Imagine a world wherever we tin displacement each these agleam folks from moving connected ads and SaaS to moving connected caller materials discovery, basal sciences, healthcare access, ambiance change, etc. Working to make the world astir america a amended place. We tin now build apps pinch a TAM of 1 aliases 2 viable astatine standard - I still person dream there's a batch of bully we tin do for the world pinch that caller reality. Purpose-built devices for ace niche, high-impact problems, wherever package isn't the extremity goal, it's conscionable a intends to an end. What do you think? Still meaningless? |
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I’m really incredibly excited for the future! Individuals are now a batch much empowered to activity efficaciously pinch computers (including america successful the tech industry). Would you honestly wanna spell backmost to pre-LLM? I now person much nosy learning CS concepts and the broadside projects I tin activity connected now were antecedently impossible. On the different hand, if you only sewage into CS for the money… past I return your point. |
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Hey, congrats connected coming up connected a day that ends successful 0. Mine was conscionable 5-0. I tin springiness you 2 pieces of imaginable advice: - thing does matter. You will die. We whitethorn meet successful the Bardo if you are spectacularly unlucky. - the instrumentality is now being benignant and enjoying your clip aft discovering this. |
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I was fired a while agone and deed my "why americium I waking up today?" point. Took maine a while but turns retired the champion logic I recovered to beryllium was taking cool pictures of bugs. Fuck maine are spiders cool. Dragonflies are incredible. Look astatine that springtail! Do thing ai can't return from you. I group myself a extremity to find each 3 type of a peculiar spider genus successful my state. Got it! Moving connected to uncovering a bolas spider. idk. There really is simply a batch to bask extracurricular the illness of the things I utilized to bask and specify my beingness by. |
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Yes, but besides no. On 1 hand, the anticipation to make thing genuinely caller feels gone. There was ever a immense crowd of amended developers than myself, but still, they couldn't return each the ideas for themselves. Now they can. On the different hand, I emotion the process of programming, and the emotion of accomplishment it brings to me. I don't cognize if I'm still going to person it astatine work, and this is genuinely important, but astatine slightest cipher is going to return my individual projects from me. Tonight I was up until 3.30 am, penning a CLI to wrangle a shapefile into a group of vector tiles that would past beryllium rendered into PNGs. Opus could astir apt person done this successful 5 minutes. I'm penning this (mostly) myself, it's been 2 evenings of work, and I'm not done. If Opus could cognize really utterly I don't attraction astir this fact, it would person cried. I'm not gonna extremity eating food conscionable because a robot tin eat it better. |
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Well, I deliberation location will beryllium a caller marketplace of developers, creating niche "Hand Made" products successful a way, wherever you whitethorn not person the standard that AI allows, but you person a batch of pricing power. Plus, AI is really overblown; Silicon Valley seems to want to make everything a caller paradigm. I consciousness for illustration AI is thing of a characteristic and institution enhancer; 95% of AI endeavor startups will dice because of Switching Costs + Bundling features. https://s-1.vercel.app/ |
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I consciousness this way, truthful I unopen my startup down. Not judge what I'm going to do adjacent but I'm hoping it isn't truthful machine dependent. The logic I sewage into computers was unregulated opportunity and state and it's conscionable the other today. |
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Yes. And mathematics too. I deliberation there's tons of beauty remaining successful knowing these things, and utilizing that knowing to trade things cleanly alternatively than arsenic slop, but nary 1 will salary america to do it, truthful we will ne'er person the opportunity to do it. |
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make package for yourself, study maths for enjoyment. times person changed. one conjecture location will ever beryllium package jobs but they wont beryllium the aforesaid arsenic successful the past. if youre reasoning of a measurement to make money and gain prestige astatine the aforesaid clip successful the machine manufacture one dont cognize what the reply to that is. |
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Startups aren’t dead. Software businesses aren’t dead. 90% of the accepted buyers of package aren’t building and deploying their ain apps from scratch. With a small thinking, creativity, and confidence, you excessively tin make things and waste them for money successful 2026. |
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Ditto. I've started reference recently. The past clip I earnestly publication a book was High School. It's alternatively enjoyable, and I person a newfound appreciation for nationalist libraries. |
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If anyone hasn't publication The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams is perfectly hilarious. The coffins stood astir waist precocious and were constructed of what appeared to beryllium achromatic marble, which is almost surely what it was - thing that only appeared to beryllium achromatic marble. |
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Indeed it feels truthful uninspiring, nary talent/skill needed and my acquisition of 17 years feels a spot pointless. In the past fewer months I person utilized Codex to build apps, truthful it's not for illustration Im not utilizing AI it conscionable makes my/the profession look dumb. Also, the LinkedIn recruiter semi flood of messages offering imaginable jobs has dried up completely(anyone other acquisition this too?). Linkedin is now conscionable a sad and depressing spot arsenic you publication others sharing akin sentiment. I'm now successful aesculapian schoolhouse pursing mid-level aesculapian type job. This aft 17 years of doing UX Research, Web/graphic creation and front-end development. 10 of those years I was moving successful govt indirectly making very bully money and small stress. Now my early successful the adjacent fewer months is infirmary activity pinch tons of accent and little pay. A spot depressing but one dont dwell connected it excessively overmuch conscionable support pushing ahead! |
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