[slopinthebag]

Yeah I mean, as far as I can tell the result of the agent mania is the same amount of software, but an acceleration in the decline of performance and quality. I'm also increasingly seeing early adopters going back to a more "traditional" approach to development. So idk, maybe the result will be more jobs fixing up all the vibe code while we transition to a more mature implementation of language models into our workflows.

[glouwbug]

I’ve noticed a massive reverse in AI sentiment in the last 3 weeks here on HN.

It’s not that I don’t disagree, but I wonder what’s going on. Maybe it’s the IPO

[hootz]

Reversing to which direction? Because what I've always seen here is a pretty good mix of positive and negative sentiments. Usually we get a lot of AI related submissions, but with skeptics/opposers in the comments.

[glouwbug]

I’m not sure. I’ve been reading death-of-the-software engineer for years, but recently the -vibe- feels different. I don’t have anything anecdotal to back it up so take it with a grain of salt. I might be reading what I want to see

[slopinthebag]

I'm assuming it's a turn to the negative and not more positivity you're seeing? Geohot's article and Hasimoto's tweet about AI psychosis kind of made me pay attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238

https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578

[glouwbug]

Yeah more or less

[BobbyTables2]

In my opinion, as AI was oversold for too long, it was was easy to dismiss it. Classical image processing was marketed as “AI”. Doomsday predictions about AI seemed laughable, just as SkyNet in the Terminator seemed unrealistic.

The early ChatGPT versions were also pretty silly and equally oversold.

At this point, the popular messaging of AI is still 90% fiction but the remaining real 10% is now a force to be reckoned with.

Companies laying off Indian call center employees to replace with AI is something I never would have dreamed of.

My experience of using AI as a search engine has surprised me. I never expected an overgrown pile of matrices to work that well.

[nextaccountic]

> My experience of using AI as a search engine has surprised me. I never expected an overgrown pile of matrices to work that well.

The first version of Google was also surprising. Mind blowing use of linear algebra (also a pile of matrices, but this time sparse matrices mostly) to rank websites

So maybe the search business was always meant to use pile of matrices