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0 pointsmavamaarten2mo ago0 comments

I'm growing allergic to the hype train and the slop. I've watched real-life talks about people that sent some prompt to Claude Code and then proudly present something mediocre that they didn't make themselves to a whole audience as if they'd invented the warm water, and that just makes me weary.

But at the same time, it has transformed my work from writing everything bit of code myself, to me writing the cool and complex things while giving directions to a helper to sort out the boring grunt work, and it's amazingly capable at that. It _is_ a hugely powerful tool.

But haters only see red, and lovers see everything through pink glasses.

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sph2mo ago· 1 in thread

> it has transformed my work […] to me writing the cool and complex things

> it's amazingly capable at that.

> It _is_ a hugely powerful tool

Damn, that’s what you call being allergic to the hype train? This type of hypocritical thinly-veiled praise is what is actually unbearable with AI discourse.

asyx2mo ago

I don’t think it is controversial that AI tools are good enough at crud endpoints that it is totally viable to just let it run through the grunt work of hooking up endpoints to a service and then you can focus on the interesting aspect of the application which is exactly that service.

iterateoften2mo ago

Sounds like maybe you might have some mixed feelings about becoming more effective with ai, but then at the same time everyone else is too so the praise youre expecting is diluted.

I see it all the time now too. People have no frame of reference at all about what is hard or easy so engineers feel under-appreciated because the guy who never coded is getting lots of praise for doing something basic while experienced people are able to spit out incredibly complex things. But to an outsider, both look like they took the same work.

ofrzeta2mo ago

I am also torn because obviously the LLMs have a lot of value but the amount of misuse is overwhelming. People just keep pasting slop into story descriptions that no one can keep up. There should be guidelines at work places to use AI responsibly.

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