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Posted by jakelsaunders94 8 hours ago

Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?(blog.jakesaunders.dev)
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kabir_forest 1 hour ago|
Using Ai for writing, Now I first try to draft things out of my mind and then ask it to find mistakes and red flags.

Asking it to draft was weakening my own skills.

arkt8 3 hours ago||
Most of boring is about people thinking AI is really intelligent. Thinking that it is magic. With magic comes the ghosts instead bugs. Who was lazy, will become even lazier. Engineers will keep building bridges... and also software.

As shown in "Normal Accidents" the strength is as high as its weaknesses, and in any complex system this is even more a problem. A catastrophic event is still to happen with AI as it happened in basically every complex system. They ocurred with trained people that wasnt believing in magic or laziness... so the scenario is even worse for AI.

Yes, I'm bored about people that believe in magic and the ghosts the are emerging and are yet to be seen.

jimmyjazz14 8 hours ago||
I think the advancements around models and such are still somewhat interesting but its all the hype around peripheral things like OpenClaw, agentic workflows and other hyped up AI-adjacent news that are getting pretty old.
Aerroon 7 hours ago|
I think the workflows can be really interesting to read about. The other week I read a reddit post how someone got Qwen3.5 35B-A3B to go from 22.2% on the 45 hard problems of swebench-verified to 37.8% (opus 4.6 gets 40%).

All they essentially did was tell the LLM to test and verify whether the answer is correct with a prompt like the following:

>"You just edited X. Before moving on, verify the change is correct: write a short inline python -c or a /tmp test script that exercises the changed code path, run it with bash, and confirm the output is as expected."

Now whether this is true, I don't know, but I think talking about this kind of stuff is cool!

mrbonner 8 hours ago||
Yes, my wife asks me to shut up when I mention AI. Hah
jonhuber 7 hours ago||
I think what's crazy is the desire to replicate current day corporate structures. Look at this multi agent Jira story reading bot that builds stuff cause we let it churn overnight. Like the whole idea that you don't need that nonsense to build something amazing.
jonhuber 7 hours ago||
And the desire to not want to understand things.
bigstrat2003 5 hours ago||
It's wild to me how many people in the industry turn out to hate not only programming, but actually trying to understand the stuff they are working on. Bro you're in the wrong field, go do another job if you don't like doing that stuff.
heavyset_go 7 hours ago||
See also this insanity: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/
mhitza 7 hours ago||
Pretty funny boasting about accelerated results, when his public contributions are only in two repositories (gstack itself and a rails bundle with 14 commits).

Endlessly grooming the Agent reminds me of Gastown.

Curios to see what he'll present, if, from his 700+ contributions in private repositories.

elorant 6 hours ago||
I’m bored of using the AI for anything other than my work. Because with my work I can give very detailed and structured prompts and get the best results, while also being able to evaluate the answer. For everything else I’m kinda worn out by second guessing all the time or having to enter a long thread until I get a decent response.
marginalia_nu 8 hours ago||
I think it's kinda double whammy, one the one hand working with AI leaves a lot of 5-15 minute breaks perfect for squeezing in a comment on a HN thread, while also supplanting the sort of work that would typically lead to interesting ideas or projects, substituting it with work that isn't that interesting to talk about (or at least hasn't been thought about for long enough to have interesting things to say).
buzarchitect 8 hours ago|
This resonates. I build products on top of LLMs, and the most interesting work I do has nothing to do with AI; it's designing structured methodologies, figuring out what data to feed in before a conversation starts, deciding what to do when the model gives a weak answer. The AI is plumbing.

But nobody wants to hear about prompt calibration or pipeline architecture. They want to hear "I replaced my whole team with agents." The boring, useful work is invisible, and the flashy stuff gets all the oxygen

selimthegrim 6 hours ago||
Now do it with knowledge or causal graphs
buzarchitect 6 hours ago||
Causal graphs are interesting, but in my experience, the bottleneck isn't the representation; it's getting the model to actually follow through on weak signals instead of moving on to the next topic. A graph won't help if the system doesn't know what to do when it hits a node that doesn't resolve cleanly. What's your experience been with them?
WorldPeas 8 hours ago||
I'm largely bored of wrappers, what still interests me are the new modalities of models being released and progressed on like small local VLMs, voice to voice and tts
abcde666777 5 hours ago||
The topic of AI triggers people in various ways - anxiety and uncertainty about the future, frustration with excessive hype, and the debate between people on each side of the fence.

It will calm down once the dust starts to settle and there's some kind of consensus on how the chips have fallen.

Also there is an irony that talking about being sick of talking about AI is still talking about AI.

qsera 52 minutes ago|
>The topic of AI triggers people in various ways

The only thing that triggers me about it peoples inability to understand how a scam works, after falling for such scams the n-th time.

Hyperloop, ubeam, blockchain, Elon musk taking all to mars....

In these line of scams, LLMs are a wet dream...

mr_bob_sacamano 7 hours ago|
I wish there were a filter on Hacker News to hide all AI related posts.
erikerikson 7 hours ago|
This is hacker news. Somebody made that and uses it so they don't see this post to tell you about that but it exists.
mr_bob_sacamano 7 hours ago||
a Kafkaesque loop
erikerikson 7 hours ago||
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35654401
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