[dangus]

I think this blames the technology way too much.

> Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it.

So don’t. Nobody’s twisting your arm.

Nobody told the author to sit down and write a bunch of random useless stuff.

This is like blaming your bicycle for enabling you to stop at too many shops that you didn’t mean to go to when you originally meant to ride straight to the grocery store.

[ianm218]

I don’t think he’s blaming the technology he’s saying that AI is like crack for people with certain types of ADHD who are always thinking up new projects or going down rabbit holes.

I can relate to this greatly I have started dozens of projects since last summer but have been having a hard time turning these into real value. Not even money but just something that people find useful beyond my own learnings.

[gitaarik]

You mean like how bikes are like crack to people that are always out and about to do useless errands?

Yeah I think we should protect these people from accessing these technologies, because they clearly can't handle it!

[ianm218]

Is someone advocating for banning AI because a guy with ADHD wastes his time? This post seems to just to be about knowing oneself and putting yourself in the right environment not creating a nanny state or something

[gitaarik]

Well I didn't say exactly "banning" either.

I have the feeling a lot of people are advocating to at least (try to) boycott AI, and downplay it, make people feel guilty about it's usage. It's vaccines vs no vaccines all over again. So binary.

Maybe we should maybe some kind of license, like driving license, but for AI. So only people qualified to use it safely and sanely can legally use it.

[dangus]

AI isn’t an addictive thing at the level of sugar, nicotine, or alcohol.

We can’t blame bicycles or dumbbells for exercise addiction.

You started those projects because you felt like starting those projects.