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Ask HN: Agentic AI just makes me sad

4•NicoJuicy•1h ago
I've been automating everything that I do. So basically, I've been reviewing and orchestrating LLM's through an Agent on my codebase/projects

I like developing and it's going well. I don't think there's a choice but to adapt.

But that it reads, acts and writes stuff 100 x faster than a human is very confronting.

Eg. I'm helping a friends son studying dutch and french ( they are from Ukraine). He's 13 years old and genuinely a smart kid.

But I can't stop thinking that, in the end, any effort will be for nothing.

I don't want to share it with any of my friends, since a lot of them have kids. Can't share it with my family, I have awesome neeces and cousins. Can't share my inner thoughts with my regular friend that hears my "hard questions", she has a baby of 2-3 years old.

The entire thing just makes me sad.

Any thoughts?

Note: I'm already aware that there will be an abundance of custom software. That's not the problem.

Comments

mc-serious•1h ago
Every automation wave produces people who genuinely can't imagine what comes next, and they're always right that something dies and always wrong that nothing replaces it. The deeper issue though is that you've started measuring yourself with the machine's ruler. Heidegger called this "enframing". Technology doesn't just change what you do, it changes how you evaluate everything, including yourself. Once you accept output speed as the metric you've already lost the argument on its own terms.

The kid learning french and dutch shouldn't try to out-translate an API. He's trying to exist in someone else's world, adapting to someone's culture gives and edge that's not easily measurable.

jvqv•1h ago
I don't think the answer is to out-compete the machine. It's probably more about being intentional about which efforts still matter to you personally, regardless of whether a tool could do it faster.

The kid learning French and Dutch is a good example actually. He's not doing it to translate. He's doing it to connect with someone. At the end of the day, there will always be things only humans can do, a touch of human spirit. Sorry for being too cheesy

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