[tibiahurried]

Internet was a fun place … until they turned into s.. with ads all over. Social media destroyed it.

AI is killing creativity and human collaboration; those long nights spent having pizza and coffee while debugging that stubborn issue or implementing yet another 3D engine… now it is all extremely boring.

[Aurornis]

You can still debug that hobby 3D engine any way you want. Anything you could do 5 years ago you can still do now.

There is an entire new world of people having fun with LLM coding. There are people having fun with social media, too. These people having fun with their thing doesn’t make your thing less fun for you to do.

Let people enjoy things. You can do your own thing and they do theirs. The internet is a big place and there’s room for everyone to find their own way to have fun. If you can’t enjoy your thing because someone else is doing it differently, that’s a you problem.

[RalfWausE]

There cannot be coexistence, "AI" needs to be destroyed.

[adithyassekhar]

Not really when there's economic incentive and when you need to eat.

[josephg]

So you want to have fun coding by hand while also making bank along the way? Yeah, those days seem to be increasingly over.

This is new for us, but it’s not new globally. There used to be professional portrait painters before photography ruined it. Lots of great artists honed their skills and made a living that way. And there were skilled weavers before the loom. Computers (humans who computed things) before the digital computer was invented. And so on. And I’m sure the first photographs don’t look as good as a skilled portrait painting. Arguably they still don’t. But that didn’t save portrait painting as a profession.

We’ll be the same. You can still write code by hand for fun, just like you can paint for fun. I’m currently better at solving problems and writing code than Claude. But Claude is faster than I am, and it’s improving much faster than I am. I think the days of making big money for writing software by hand are mostly over.

[raw_anon_1111]

The first banner ad on the web was in 1994. The commercial web has always been ad supported.

Yes I know about Usenet. I was on it in 1992.

[JumpCrisscross]

> AI is killing creativity and human collaboration; those long nights spent having pizza and coffee while debugging that stubborn issue

AI is currently designed to be used somewhat antisocially. But nothing stops it from helping a team collaborate. Collaborative vibe working would be a fine place to wind up.

[murphyslaw]

Older people like me could say that the Internet was a fun place until AOL came along.

IMO we're going to just have to deal with AI, like it or not.

[GaryBluto]

> AI is killing creativity and human collaboration; those long nights spent having pizza and coffee while debugging that stubborn issue or implementing yet another 3D engine… now it is all extremely boring.

One could also say Multi-Drug Therapy killed the solidarity and shared struggle found in leper colonies.