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YC remains a great source of creative inspiration for me. However, I tend to skip most AI-related content on HN, as the topic does more harm than good to me in my daily life. Some people around me delegate more and more decisions to the chat, and that frightens. Especially if you are somehow dependent on them or your work gets evaluated by some creepy AI-driven bossware. We should admit that AI, particularly LLMs, is not just eating: it is destroying society, human communications, the education system, and the scientific community. This enumeration is merely the sides that I personally faced.

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I work with some undergrads and see this delegation increasing year over year. Unfortunately it's also happening at the expense of reading books, using library search tools to find proper sources, and information gathering in general.

"An LLM might be able to explain something to you, but it can never understand it for you."

I was recently in a work AI training where we were encouraged to have AI review all our vendor and contractor budgets and find holes and create rebuttals to line items. Was wondering what if the vendor has ai review our rebuttals and create counter-points to our ai-created arguments. At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot.

> At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot.

And then something like this [0] will happen, creating a weird wasteful meta-game about the model(s) used by each company.

It makes intuitive sense: If you outsourced "generate awesome assertions" to a contractor, then someone else hired the same contractor to "judge the awesomeness of these assertions", they are more likely to get lots of "awesome" results—whether they're warranted or not. The difference might even come down to quirks of word-choice and formatting which a careful human inspector would judge irrelevant.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/ai_hiring_biased/

> At some point it will just be AI talking against itself to another AI chatbot.

As anyone in the US healthcare insurance claims-adjacent spaces can tell you: yes, in about 2 years.

I anticipate a time when two negotiating parties will give their negotiation points and red lines to their agents, and the negotiations will wholly take place between their representative agents.

I visibly cringe when I hear people talking about using AI for anything. With the help of the social disease we call 'social media', AI is destroying thought on all levels.

Not sure about destroying everything. Def benefitting few at the great, great expense of the many. But trickle down benefits are a thing. And I see no way to avoid the future; the genie’s out the bottle.

One should aim to be in the food chain at a level, where there is no bossware above you.

I welcome the bossware. Bye bye bosses.

Bossware, where

the boss is nowhere

Better the devil that you know...

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