In my feed 'AI hype' outnumbers 'anti-AI hype' 5-1. And anti-hype moderates like antirez and simonw are rare. To be a radical in ai is to believe that ai tools offer a modest but growing net positive utility to a modest but growing subset of hackers and professionals
The only AI bloggers who don't have something to sell seems to be simonw, the flask guy, and this redis guy. Any other blog recommendations from HN?
tbh I think it is just a question about time before flask guy has something to sell: https://earendil.com/
I can't for the life of me tell what it's about.
Well put.
AI obviously brings big benefits into the profession. We just have not seen exactly what they are just yet. How it will unfold.
But personally I feel that a future of not having to churn out yet another crud app is attractive.
In theory “not having to churn out yet another crud app” doesn’t require AI, any ol code generator will do. AI is a really expensive way (in terms of gpus/tpus) to generate boilerplate, but as long as that cost is massively subsidized by investors, you may as well use it.
I agree, we (or I) should have gotten out of this earlier. Shame on me, really. But LLM:s have lowered the threshold.