This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a result, the author (pilot?

AI models are extremely bad at original thinking, so any thinking that is offloaded to a LLM is as a result usually not very original, even if they’re very good at treating your inputs to the discussion as amazing genius level insights.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
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    14 days ago

    You don’t get build muscle using an excavator to lift weights. You don’t produce interesting thoughts using a GPU to think.

    I’m stealing that 😈 though I’ll probably switch out the first example for something different, because I am a person with a soul, so I can 💅🏻

    (Side note : I never thought I’d be boasting about literally just existing 😂 what interesting times we live through)