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Posted by mooreds 9 hours ago

Leave Me Behind(androidessence.com)
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theturtle 3 hours ago|
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paulinho1 7 hours ago||
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PyWoody 4 hours ago||
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mrenzo 3 hours ago||
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foo-bar-baz529 7 hours ago||
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w4yai 8 hours ago||
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aaarrm 8 hours ago||
The quality of hacker news commenters has been steadily declining, yet I'm still constantly surprised by just how mentally shallow and lazy some can be
w4yai 8 hours ago||
Is that something you say whenever someone doesn't follow the nostalgic hivemind ?
cryo32 7 hours ago|||
It's not nostalgia. It's self-awareness and importantly self-worth.
Yeask 8 hours ago|||
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000ooo000 8 hours ago|||
Do you respond with 'main character syndrome' to everyone who shares an opinion?
w4yai 8 hours ago||
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tomhow 3 hours ago||
Can you not post this style of sweeping rhetoric on HN? We're here for curious conversation, and comments like this are antithetical to that. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them when participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Alex_L_Wood 8 hours ago|||
You don't even know what "main character syndrome" is.
xantronix 6 hours ago|||
What makes an appeal to experience, subjective or otherwise, an expression of Main Character Syndrome? Just because somebody pushes back against the tides doesn't mean they fancy themself more important than others. Further, they're not saying "we should all stop using LLMs". The title of the article is literally "Leave Me Behind", an expressed desire to no longer participate in a system they believe to be harmful.

They explicitly state a position they take for themself, whereas you make an implicit value judgement of all practitioners who feel similarly. This could be read in a way as an assumption that everyone else should be as miserable as you.

sillywabbit 8 hours ago|||
> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves

Then why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?

w4yai 8 hours ago||
Because it seems to be economically the right thing to do.
sillywabbit 8 hours ago|||
Maximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
w4yai 8 hours ago||
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NateEag 6 hours ago|||
> Because it seems to be economically the right thing to do^H^H^H^H^H optimal for a few billionaires.

FTFY.

...though even the billionaires may regret it if the peasants wind up starving by the billions. Species don't do well with tiny populations.

And before anyone says "UBI," give me a coherent explanation of:

* who is going to fund UBI to the tune of fifty trillion dollars * why we're so confident they'll do that * why there are currently so many people starving and homeless in SF if if any tech billionaire feels the need to spend their money providing for other humans

wiseowise 8 hours ago||
> Main character syndrome.

Do you even know what that means or you just saw a phrase online and like how it sounds? There’s nothing about main character here, the author doesn’t even advocate for anything.

> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves. It's there to do the programming, no matter what humans feel about it. Please stop confusing your hobbies with the work needed to be done.

Get help, even if it is from the AI, seriously.

Mikhail_Edoshin 6 hours ago||
AI is repulsive. You either feel it, maybe not immediately, or don't. When you feel it, you'll rationalize it one way or another. The rationalization does not matter that much. It's essentially arbitrary and is a product of whatever experience you've accumulated so far. (E.g. could be a Communist rationalization of alienation under capitalism.) Yet the underlying feeling is true. Stick to it.
moralestapia 6 hours ago||
“So leave me behind.”

That’s easy to say for someone in their 50s who built wealth under favorable conditions.

But it’s quite ignorant and inhumane to say that to someone in their 20s who is just starting their career.

Too bad to see these boomer antics continue to be perpetuated.

gausswho 5 hours ago||
The second sentence of TFA: "I learned to build Android applications in 2014. I was in college taking a Java programming class".

So this person's twelve years out of college. You may want to train your fire elsewhere.

moralestapia 5 hours ago||
???

But that's exactly my point. He got twelve good years out of it.

SoftTalker 4 hours ago||
People in their 50s are not boomers.
moralestapia 3 hours ago||
>[...] these boomer antics continue to be perpetuated.

>continue to be perpetuated

dvt 7 hours ago|
The funniest thing about this post is that Java Android programming circa 2014 is somehow romanticized as "real programming." 2014 Android code has got to be peak corpo-slop with the most inane abstractions, unintuitive paradigms, and copy-paste boilerplate syndrome. Ironically, exactly why we need AI these days, since like 90% of the code you wrote didn't technically do anything.
oytis 5 hours ago|
It's apparently very funny though, cause the author was laughing a lot. Systems and embedded programmers like myself are grumpy af with or without AI
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