[echelon]

This is the way.

I'm not Googling much of anything anymore. 9/10 times the information is awful, it's hard to parse out of whatever other spam it's surrounded by. Meanwhile, Claude will just do the thing one-shot or with a tiny bit of refinement.

The gateway to knowledge and getting stuff done is the LLM.

Google Search is a dinosaur.

It feels like we're living a century into the future. Not even smartphones were this cool.

[kingofthehill98]

Yeah, if the future is "Claude, think for me" I'm happy to stay at the good old present.

[echelon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-educators-mo...

New decade, same old argument.

It's not

> "Claude, think for me"

It's

> "Claude, be my subordinate and get this done for me"

Instead of complaining on the sidelines, I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

[ultrarunner]

For what it's worth, even this reply reads like LLM output. It's not "quote describing the scenario", it's "some other linked-in-coded plot twist". If you're the average of the people you spend the most time around, and you spend the most time around a chatbot, do you start to absorb its speech patterns and logic structures?

Yeah, good ol' present for me too then, thanks.

[wwweston]

As one famous agent said: “I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about.”

An argument can be as old as the search engine and hold real value. There are ways in which unreflective search engine use has misled and mistrained people.

There’s always been argument to be had about how we manage and offload attention, what we gain and what we lose when resistance is reduced. It’s part of reflection that’s been necessary in order to make progress solid ground, and is more necessary with non-deterministic tech.

The phrase “Tactical tornados” may be older than web search and describes people who also got a lot done.

Models can be incredibly helpful boosters and situationally effective subordinates… and also patchy as a real engineering IC or org.

[this_user]

> Instead of complaining on the sidelines, I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

Nah, you are just producing a bunch of slop and hope that nobody notices.

[sdevonoes]

> I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

It’s weird when people are proud of doing ton of work. Im the opposite, Im proud that Im doing minimal stuff without llms.

[dominotw]

> I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

maybe you stopped thinking too much that you dont regonize that you are just producing slop that no one cares about.

AI is now getting humans to produce slop

[coldtea]

The argument was correct then (Google/social did make us more stupid) and correct now regarding AI. So not sure why pointing out it was said before is relevant. Except as an example of its prescience.

>"Claude, be my subordinate and get this done for me"

Since "this" is thinking, then the two formulations are equivalent.

>Instead of complaining on the sidelines, I'm getting a shit ton of work done.

Until you no longer have a job and are drowned in slop.

[tobyhinloopen]

Claude “respond in a friendly way that I agree with this comment”

[iammrpayments]

There’s no way this is not a paid comment, I see stuff like this everywhere in HN nowadays

[coldtea]

>It feels like we're living a century into the future.

The WALL-E chair-people future.