Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

bena

Talking about how you are bored about talking about the thing is still talking about the thing.

jvanderbot

How do I answer this without spamming: Yes, very much. Everyone is in their own place adapting (or not) to AI. The disconnect b/w even folks on the same team is just crazy. At least it's gotten more concrete (here's what works for me, what do you do) vs catastrophizing jobpocolypse or "teh singularity", at least on day to day conversations.

thrill

only of people constantly complaining about it like they have some special insight

ternera

It's just a buzzword that draws more attention and more clicks. I also use AI for some projects, but it can be annoying when companies try to incorporate it in places it doesn't belong.

asd198

I'm kind of bored by AI promotion posts that pretend to be about something else.

ppqqrr

yes. it's like a giant finger pointing at the moon, and everyone's talking about the finger.

IshKebab

I wish there was an option to hide AI stories on HN, and AI-related repos on Github's trending page. You could use AI to do it! Fight fire with fire. I'm neutral on AI - so far it seems useful but flawed. But I don't want to hear about it constantly .

marginalia_nu

I think it's kinda double whammy, one the one hand working with AI leaves a lot of 5-15 minute breaks perfect for squeezing in a comment on a HN thread, while also supplanting the sort of work that would typically lead to interesting ideas or projects, substituting it with work that isn't that interesting to talk about (or at least hasn't been thought about for long enough to have interesting things to say).

paxys

So then...don't talk about it? Do your job. Go home. Spend time with family. Find some non-tech hobbies. The solution isn't to change the world but to break your social media addiction (and yes, HN/Linkedin/X are included).

mememememememo

Yes. Go to Mastodon. I accidently stumbled on Mastodon last night (I knew about it of course but largely ignored it). Of the 100 or so posts they were all cool stuff. Only one was AI related and it was more a researchy geeky thing than the brainrot "I fired all my staff an hour ago. They were not happy. CRLF. CRLF. I have an agentic circus and I am the ringmaster of 666 agents. CRLF....." crap you get on Linked in.

mlhpdx

Yes — talking and hearing/reading about it. I don’t fault folks for being excited when first getting into ut, but it’s rare to hear anything new said. And what is new is increasingly niche and unlikely to have any application to what I do.

mrbonner

Yes, my wife asks me to shut up when I mention AI. Hah

WorldPeas

I'm largely bored of wrappers, what still interests me are the new modalities of models being released and progressed on like small local VLMs, voice to voice and tts

monknomo

I deeply wish to hear about other tech trends; I get enough of use more ai, do more with less, and ship faster at work. I'd rather hear about new tools and techniques here

vrganj

AI is fine . The hype is annoying. What's even worse though are the incredible amounts of money and energy that are being thrown at it, with no regard for the consequences, in times of record inequality and looming climate apocalypse. AI is the red herring that'll waste all our attention until it's too late.

matusp

Very much so. I wouldn't mind some interesting projects or results. But it's very basic opinions or parables all over again.

internet2000

Not really? It's kind of a big deal.

rbanffy

I am. To keep talking about it I might just deploy a chatbot to do that for me.

tapoxi

It's a black box that thinks for me, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it times out. I am extremely skeptical of AI products anyone builds. It's just using one black box to build scaffolding around another black box and then typically want to charge money for it. I don't see any value there.