u_fucking_dork

Addiction is absolutely the wrong word and you’re stretchy very hard to try and make it fit

Two things can be bad, you don’t have to pick.

Yeah I listen to random ambient music, probably all AI, as background noise when I’m working or reading

Until someone fine tunes their LLM to match whatever the trend is and then the contrarians buck that trend for something else. An endless game of cat and mouse.

I personally don’t care if an output is from LLM or human, as long as someone has validated it and determined that it’s correct and useful.

Some people want so badly for the iPhone to be bad and only bought by sheep as a fashion accessory to signal to their wealth to their peers.

On the other hand, I recently had a problem with my grocery order from Sam’s Club (the onions were smashed) and had to call to get it hopefully addressed. Talked to an LLM for 30 seconds after 0 wait and it was resolved. No accent I could barely understand, no potato microphone, no being put on hold for 5 minutes in the middle while they do whatever.

Just I’m an AI, I might fuck this up, what do you need, is this about your most recent order? Yes, my onions got smashed. Ok do you want a refund? Yes. The end.

even iPhones came (and still comes) with a ton of apps you cannot remove regardless of how little you use them

You see, the user you replied to spoke in the present tense, and is addressing the “(and still comes with)” portion of the original comment.

They are significantly more convenient. No wired to tangle or snag on anything. Seamless handoff between all your devices. It’s genuinely a better user experience.

They don’t sound better, but if you care about sound quality over ux then you’re even luckier nowadays than any time prior because you can plug an amp/dac into your phone

In an age where every idiot is online it’s not surprising you are here writing this.

In your fantasy scenario moving to Rust over Zig 0.16 would good

Ah yeah certainly there’s nothing else to be done. One must complain on social media about something that they have no control over yet is easily avoidable.

Throwing all away by changing to a different programming language.

None of it is thrown away, it’s just now in a new language.

On top of that Bun is realistically a one man show with the vast majority of the code written by one dude. So the comment I replied to started from outrage and worked backwards to justify it without thinking too hard tbh.

The implication that you shouldn’t be able to change the programming language of your own project is also weird. Personally I welcome things like Typescript being rewritten in Go

Have you never read a magazine or a newspaper? Ads have been in products designed for reading for your entire life.

And it’s an ad on the lock screen, not an ad interrupting your reading. I buy the ad free versions though.

Because these are people that don’t buy the books anyway. They pirate them and put them onto their 2010 Chinese ebook reader.

Keep buying phones with headphone jacks and removable batteries then. They exist. If every social media user that whined about these things acted with their wallet maybe they’d be able to change something.

You shouldn’t feel slapped in the face if someone chooses a programming language you don’t like. Full stop.

They didn't know the outcome beforehand; had odds fallen the other way, your argument would have stated that they voted no. Were they in a superposition before the results came in, voting both yes and no simultaneously?!

Yes, of course, they didn’t give a shit. They couldn’t be bothered. Outcome was whatever for them.

So you’re saying today’s models are sticks and stones and you’re looking forward to the nuclear submarine equivalent models?

People usually point at the scale when this discussion comes up, in my experience. These companies are doing something at a huge scale spending tons of money to do it so the potential harm is greater.

People can easily justify their own piracy because it’s small scale. Even when they organize, create a whole software and tooling ecosystem around pirating media to stick into jellyfin or plex. AI still did it bigger and worse and is bad, what I’m doing is not so bad because I wasn’t going to buy the movie anyway, etc.

But then it wouldn’t have tickled the HN reader quite the same way and wouldn’t have gotten voted to the top.

This doesn’t even need to be a website at all. This is pure slop designed in a pig lab for HN trough.

To? The website at large, we’re in public brother. About? The throwaway account I replied to and his straw man.

China should clearly just stop manufacturing the US’s entire way of life right now to bring those numbers down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219128

Yeah I’d much rather have the opinion of a condescending layman on social media who’s ego was inflated by learning how to program

“That’s a straw man”, he says, as he hand waves it away as if it were not a problem

The common arguments against Tailwind usually derive from total ignorance of working with CSS on large scale projects with many team members.

And when this is pointed out you’ll usually get replies that just hand wave it away as not a problem, as if things like BEM were invented for no reason.

And how does tailwind or the structure of the underlying html of the page change or affect that?

It’s overly reductive to the point of being wrong yes. You’re being intentionally obtuse. Then again your brain is just some electric meat so why would you be capable of more?

Good job calling it a token predictor instead of text autocomplete btw, you’re making progress, my wonderful analogies have already begun to enlighten you. You’ll achieve some nuance yet.

Why? I clearly presented my comment as a personal opinion. These are formed based on my personal experiences among my friends and family, and at work. At work Claude Desktop is overwhelmingly popular, people love it. Even our internal chatgpt + RAG clone is used by over 90% of desk workers monthly and has a great net promoter score. The only place is see all the AI hate and backlash is on social media and discord.

You, on the other hand, are vaguely alluding to “surveys” with no context or detail. How many? How rigorous? Who did them? Why no links?

The average Redditor that performatively hates AI sure. But outside of the chronically online bubble, the average person, in my experience, does not hate AI