| ▲ | reasonableklout 4 days ago |
| It's a nice message and I sympathize with the frustration, but the critique falls flat with the author's decision to pivot into AI research. |
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| ▲ | whilenot-dev 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Advancements in intelligent AI and LLMs get me excited. Large and centered on the authors website: https://evansu.com/ |
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| ▲ | chromehearts 4 days ago | parent [-] | | What a hypocrite lmao | | |
| ▲ | qualeed 4 days ago | parent [-] | | You can dislike what AI/LLMs are doing in the software development field, but be excited about their medical applications, as an example. |
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| ▲ | Shorel 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The difference I perceive is the split between being the one designing the software, which is what he likes to do, and letting a LLM design the software, without the developer actually understanding what's going on, which is what he dislikes. (This short comment exchange between us is also a meta commentary on that. Because our comments are much shorter than all the AI summaries, and at the same time, we add nuance and clarification to the ideas exposed, something the AI summaries don't do.) |
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| ▲ | DaSHacka 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Also the AI ghibli pfp... |
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| ▲ | neomantra 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The entire thing was crafted, including the profile pic. His low-quality “petty comments” are to the low-effort haters. | |
| ▲ | subscribed 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What's wrong with it? | | |
| ▲ | latexr 4 days ago | parent [-] | | It was clearly AI generated. So the author is clearly OK with using AI to generate slop in an area they don’t work in, while simultaneously decrying its use in an area they do work in. If they believe so strongly that AI use is destroying their industry, they should reflect on its effect on other industries too (it is well-documented how artists are being negatively impacted). I agree with the commenters above that it makes the critique fall flat. The
author is saying “This thing is so frustrating and harmful it makes me want to stop working in a field because of it. Oh, by the way, I use this tool myself for other things, and will indeed pivot to contribute directly to them”. | | |
| ▲ | ryandv 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly. The self-contradiction exposes this farce of an arrangement for what it is: talented engineers are presented with immense monetary incentives to automate themselves out of the workforce, their carefully honed craftsmanship to be replaced by hordes of monkeys at typewriters producing voluminous slop. Anybody can plainly see that the emperor is without clothes, but so long as the C-level rhetoric is sung to the tune of "Either you have to embrace the AI, or you get out of your career," [0] you may as well put on your own clown nose and wig and start dancing while the music is still playing and there are still seats out. Farcical circumstances prompt paradoxical responses. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645 | |
| ▲ | Lutger 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I didn't interpret it as decrying the use of AI. Especially because he plans to dedicate his time and energy into researching the very same AI he rants about, basically promoting its use! Instead, I see it as a deeply personal rant about the state of affairs which he considers inevitable himself. That is why he leaves the ship. Before AI slop, there has always been just the agile slop of the bare(ly) minimum product, good enough to woo the ones making a buying decision, or at least until the career sharks have moved on to the next thing. That kind of slop has always been there and everywhere actually. Its called capitalism, or consumerism. The trick is to work for a place that isn't squeezed too hard, because its still in the investment phase or because it just earns money on its own merit. AI will certainly transform things, just like higher level languages and frameworks have done so. Maybe programming without AI will be the 'micro optimization' of the future: something that is still there and valuable, but only sometimes and only in a certain niche. Slop is eternal, it just has a new face and a new name. This blog to me is a nice personal rant about a smart young developer coming of age, trying to find his way and guard his ideals or standards against the onslaught of consumerism, just as ambitious young developers always have tried to do. |
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| ▲ | KaiserPro 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > falls flat with the author's decision to pivot into AI research. yeah but _what_ part of AI research. There are loads of it that are nothing to do with slop, and might even have practical and useful benefits.... |
