> AI is making this all so much worse. When you are prompting you feel like you are steering, but are you really? Would you know if you weren’t?

This one hits hard. I feel more and more that AI-assisted creation is really just consumption. And it’s worse because it gives a false sense of creativity. Are we really expressing ourselves and challenging ourselves by pressing a button and generating the same slop as a million other people?

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xoac 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Wasn't this obvious?

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xpct 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We wouldn't be having debates about it every other day if it was

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krapp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Spend some time on HN reading people's comments about how AI frees them and liberates their minds and lets them be creative in ways that were never possible before and how anyone who thinks otherwise is just a Luddite. You'll realize how not obvious it is to many people.

You (collective you, not you personally) are just consuming a product. The LLM is a product. The model is a product.

You're reheating spam from the can in the microwave and acting like you're Gordon Ramsey. But you don't know how to cook, all you know how to do is push buttons. And worst of all, you probably think anyone who bothers to learn how to prepare food with their hands is a rube.

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cliglot 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Spend some time on HN reading people's comments about how AI frees them and liberates their minds and lets them be creative in ways that were never possible before

The creativity: literally just rewriting an existing product in a new programming language or a shitty SaaS app that will never be used.

Honestly seems like status-quo to me, at least going off Show HN

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NetMageSCW 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or are they right and you’re the one saying if you don’t know how to saddle a horse and rub it down you shouldn’t consider yourself a driver?

	▲	krapp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for demonstrating my point so perfectly.