HN will flag and downvote anti AI sentiment. There is lots of it here, you just aren't allowed to see it.
Let's face it Y combinator is mostly AI startups for the next few years, and any anti-AI sentiment is going to hurt the bottom line.
That being said, I disagree with Sanders on a number of points. He wants to stop data center construction. Can't think of a more luddite un-nuanced solution to the "problem"
The real AI danger is not the threat to white collar jobs (which will simply have to evolve), but something we will see roughly 18 months now when Joe Schmo asks Claude Giga Max Supreme 8.0 to help him reduce his taxes, and it hacks into the IRS and deletes everyone's records.
I'm lurking in the indie game dev scene, and any mention of using LLMs for anything is downvoted and laughed at.
I've seen some "devs" livestreaming themselves coding a game using LLMs, and it's not pretty. But that's my opinion of vibecoding in general — it's the tool one uses when they don't want to think too much, which is the furthest path to greatness.
Some random examples off reddit (try to compare the sentiment if it had been posted on Hacker News):
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1rvafee/using_clau...
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1erb39r/is_it_poss...
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1qll8jr/has_anyone...
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1jitfbi/im_tired_o...
In general, interest in AI-assisted coding is associated with people that have no experience whatsoever and just want to make a game out of thin air without putting in the effort.