I'm not negative about AI within the things it's currently useful for and the constraints of what LLM's can help with.
I'm pretty negative about the massive over-hyping of AI with wild assertions and completely underwhelmed by the current implementations of it - I also half suspect they are going to crash the financial markets when reality and hype catch up with each other.
Who knows, I might be wrong, they might discover machine intelligence and make AI actually be AI in the next 5-10 years which would be quite the achievement since we don't have a good grasp of what intelligence even is including our own.
It's not really anything new though, hot new technology gets early adoption, salespeople move in, becomes massively over hyped, will change everything turns out to not change everything but be useful for some things, gets used for those things and the world continues.
I'm even old enough to remember when OOP was spoken about as "The Next Big Thing That Will Change Everything".
Gartner even has a name for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
OOP WAS a Big Thing that DID change everything :)
Nothing I said implied it didn't but also the hype was way out there mostly iirc on the back of Java but the hyperbole was very familiar to what we see now about LLM's.
Nobody* wants this to happen, yet it’s charging forward.
* yes of course there are some, but they’re already the ones with the power and money.
maybe the real people on reddit hate ai because of all the bots on the platform? Also many of the subreddits are wildly biased and the mods will ban anyone who goes against the official groupthink. HN in fact is one of the few communities that actively encourage constructive communication, and even then it's an uphill battle.
The problem with AI is that you have to already be an authority on the output to know whether it is right and usable or wrong.
Many people out there treat AI as the authority not even knowing whether the output is correct or not.
I know for me that AI has made programming easier for me, but at the same time made my job harder cleaning up other people’s “but the AI told me to do it” messes
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Here both pro and anti posts can and often share the same space. Unless it’s just very plainly vitriolic.
Also the mods there have different incentives than the mods here.