alt Hacker NewsThere seems to be a team sport mentality with AI topic in HN these days. Almost feels like people are picking sides, and thus not being very thoughtful or rational.
Sigh, there definitely an attitude creeping into the community and it's a huge turn off unfortunately.
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>There seems to be a team sport mentality with AI topic in HN these days. Almost feels like people are picking sides, and thus not being very thoughtful or rational.
If you are financially set for the rest of your life - Pro AI
If you are not financially set for the rest of your life - Anti AI
I was thinking of the Zig community but I agree that there seem to be some tribalism on HN as well.
Possibly the thing that will determine the long term survivability of each will be the respective attitudes of dang compared to Andrew. Putting out flare ups may be a fairly thankless and unending job but it probably is more protective than pouring gasolene over them.
Maybe one day dang will pop and it will all come out in a spectacular rage.
"These days"? Only if "these days" start in 2022 when LLMs first hit the scene. Everyone recognized in their gut, pretty early on, what they were and what they represented.
Yeah, I think AI could well destroy this community. There’s a lot of personal identity tied up in being a hacker (broadly defined), and only some aspects of that identity will be strengthened by AI.
Similar to Go and Chess, AI might make “programming for beauty” more accessible and popular. However it will almost certainly make the act of writing “code for money” much less valuable, which means many people will stop getting paid exorbitant sums to do what they love.
Personally what I loved was never the typing characters or optimizing algorithms; building is better than ever. But I really empathize with those who loved the craft of code golf, algorithms, literate programming, the elegance of micro structure of programs, etc. and who see their world under threat.