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i'm tired of

Specific Hacker News comments for the submission, I'm tired of talking about AI, share insights that I'd like to both internalize and circulate within this space's surroundings:

PaulHoule nails it:

If you really felt that way you wouldn't talk about it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club

People complaining about AI are flooding the zone together with all the people who switched from NFT to AI, the "I vibe coded something and it almost works" crowd, etc.

Be careful what you vote up, also keep an eye on the /new page and vote things up that aren't about AI, also feel free to submit things that aren't about AI. If you look at the difference between the home page and the /new page, you can see the supply of bad articles about AI far exceeds the demand, keep holding the line against it.

jsnell expounds upon that:

Ah, a new entry in the "throw every possible AI criticism at the wall, and see what sticks" genre. As always, going for quantity rather than quality undermines the entire endeavor, as the article gets dominated by the stale and mostly invalid talking points.

"I'm tired about talking about AI, so here's 2000 words about AI" will appear on the surface to be a novel twist, but actually what the author seems to mean is that they don't want to be talked to about AI, have written this, and are now filtering out all rebuttals. It's just the classic fake win of a forum poster claiming this will be their last message on a subject, followed by three pages of text.

Like, of course if talking about AI is causing you distress, stop doing it. But then just stop doing it, don't try to get in the last word some pretense of it being "absolution".

It's a bit of a shame, because I think slightly expanding the last section and cutting out basically all the rest would have worked way better. There has been some discourse on what the skill set for somebody using AI for creating software could look like in the future (it'll change over time, obviously). There hasn't been very much written on who would enjoy that job, and it's something where nobody can rebut the author. They're the #1 expert in the world on their own preferences.

0xbadc0de5 keeps it concise:

s/tired of//

BGyss seeks sanctuary:

I'm tired of hearing about people who are tired of talking about AI - is there a place on the Internet for me?

threatofrain hints at an option:

Talk to founders and builders. I happen to be building automation for drones, which has a smaller intersection to the LLM space.

colinsane touches upon a similar sentiment:

in my vicinity, the sci-fi discourse has died down the last few months. my coworkers will show me how they use these tools when i ask them, and are building on/with them incrementally. the shift in tone is encouraging. there's space for actual practical discourse around this stuff now. chat about concrete things with your friends/coworkers -- if you're interested in it.

How often do you feign fatigue in your own life? For that matter, whom are you surrounding yourself with?

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