You're right to be anxious about AI: This is how much we are building

https://www.dumky.net/posts/youre-right-to-be-anxious-about-ai-this-is-how-much-we-are-building/

3•dmkii•1h ago

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dmkii•1h ago

I've been overwhelmed with the flood of interesting new things being released. I tried to put a number on it and across the board from Github repos to package registries to Show HN submissions there is just such an immense increase in output, especially since Claude Code and Codex. I think everyone has felt this, but I have not yet found a way to deal with filtering out the genuine quality from the AI slop.

prox•1h ago

Yeah, I have been following a subreddit where people offer their new plugin for a software I use. And where it use to be like one or two a week, it’s now a daily “look at my thing I build!”

The bar for entry has been lowered, the output increased, and quality suffers.

We had something similar when the internet grew, so much blogs and then monetised blogs, getting to the good bits was (and is) difficult. We need guides and curators.

dmkii•10m ago

100% agree with the curators part. I think this is often implicit, but we look for signals of quality, whether that's Github stars or a person we trust. I feel the sense of what is a good curator has shifted, or even the curators are overwhelmed. Similar to the enshittification paradigm: once you find a good source of curated content, let's say Substack, then it grows and needs its own curation.

thomasgeelens•1h ago

Talked to a guy at a bar yesterday (Well he talked TO me, couldn't really get into a conversation) and he went: "Now I create WordPress plugins in 10 seconds, like for real! I have the most expensive Github Plan, all the agents and I just tell them what I want, I get it and publish it!".

Mind you, my projects are also build with Claude Code / Coding Agents but I spec, I refactor, I research, etc. It was at that point I realised that there could be millions of people like him now. He unironically said: "When people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm a promp engineer".

dmkii•9m ago

I mean, it is one thing to build things for yourself or your company this way. It's a whole other thing to dump it on the rest of the world. I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that maintainers of projects I highly value have to shut down contributions due to the amount of AI slop contributions they receive, making it impossible to maintain the project.

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