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> They insist the tech will never work, and avoid learning about it, becoming progressively more paranoid and isolated.

They can always learn the technology later, when and if it proves itself to be useful :) I personally don't understand the hype, even after using Claude and other AI tools - but perhaps that will change in the future.

If your company offer 'training' with 'AI expert' and 'prompt engineers', I urge you to attend. It's very gratifying, it cure imposter syndrome, and you will understand who is behind the hype and their technical level.

(And it is already useful, just not as much as some people sell it)

> I urge you to attend

Of course :) It’s interesting to hear the ideas people come up with, but so far no one has demonstrated any practical results that would significantly improve the quality of work in my field. It has, however, increased the amount of slop that I need to deal with on a daily basis. Worse yet, it is not always programming slop :)

> And it is already useful, just not as much as some people sell it

In a general context, I agree. When it comes to programming, however, my experience has been different. If this technology were presented more modestly / realistically, it likely wouldn’t have attracted billions of dollars in investment and the hype. I think this is exactly what many sensible people point to when debating whether this is a bubble :)

What looks isolated to you merely looks separated from the SV hype pool to the rest of the world. Most people aren’t in on this.

Not sure how this comment got upvoted; calling skepticism of an emerging industry a "mental breakdown" and suggesting those "suffering" from it to talk to a therapist doesn't really clear the bar for discussion here. This reads more like a manager being salty that their team isn't using up all the Grok budget this quarter or whatever.

And let it be clear that nobody is being "actively hurt" by legitimate economic/business grievances. This is victim-blaming and disgusting rhetoric.

It got upvoted because this hype is essentially running on faith at this point, and the only way to fight someone questioning your faith is calling them crazy, confused, or evil.

Wait, isn't it the other way around? I.e. people infatuated with AI having breakdowns? Multiple such cases were on the front page of HN.

There's nothing to recover from, what are you even talking about? I'm not a token user (and I can't make predictions about the future and whether it will force me to use token but still). That the industry is collectively having a delusion about what constitutes good software (in all senses of the word - functionality and consequences for society) is clear to see, something I too fear we might never recover from, but I stand quite clearly on the side of people not of corporations hoping to extract more more more.

> They insist the tech will never work, and avoid learning about it, becoming progressively more paranoid and isolated. I'm trying to be supportive and help them start to recover, but it's slow going.

If you are right, and the tech works, both you and them will be continuing this conversation in a soup kitchen.

More likely a mass grave

nice darvo, mate.

The internet 30 years ago worked great, what are you talking about.

> I've started to feel like Ed Zitron is actively hurting people I care about.

lmfao