Is your employer forcing you to use Haiku to save on costs?
Now everything is just like above, dorkspeak. Where it reminds me so much more of kids arguing in the playground about "who would win in a fight Darth Vader or Batman"; or console-vs-PC debates. Everything is about the genuine complexity of navigating certain products, of being first and foremost a consumer of something and putting all your energy into comparing various things you are free to choose from.
Its not even like its less techincal, or more mean now, or anything like that. It's just very different and I know its been a while but it feels like it happened overnight.
People can't even discuss about any politics anymore.
Back in Obama's days there were always interesting discussions in the political threads and they were rarely insta flagged. And it was mostly nuances wrt business needs and what that means for our societies. The PRISM news also frequently got heated, and still stayed somewhat technical.
Extremely noticable compared to the platform it is today.
Tbf though, HN always had a few topics it was extremely irrational about.
Eg Apple since the start and Musk post 2012...
As one of the users that moved to HN when Reddit closed access to third party apps it’s also quite literally this. I apologize for any reduction in quality of discourse I might have caused.
I'm amused by your surprise.
>Its not even like its less techincal
I'd wager that, actually, it is less technical. We constantly see otherwise very techinical people here poking their heads up and admitting that they haven't been writing any code for 6 months or more, and the ones that brag about it are seemingly unaware that they've been reduced to being a technical PM (the ones that contest this probably havent worked with capable technical PMs). No one wants to engage with vibe-coded Show HN entries because the poster may not grasp the implementation. No one appears to be doing (or sharing) anything super novel with all this coding superpower they have suddenly attained so there's nothing technically interesting to talk about. The last time I found an AI application submission interesting was the one where the person was trying to turn their pet's random keyboard typing into a language (if I remember correctly).
If the guidelines banned any AI comments that didn't preface their comment with the model and version of AI they used, their application domain, and the programming language being used I'm sure there would be less contentious dorky debate and more technical/practical discussion.
And since many here don't see the endgame with AI resulting in anything good for their career or society, like the endless remote work debates, they comment because from a strategic point of view they do not want to cede the narrative to the other side on such an important topic. understandably. hence more dorky debates.
> No one appears to be doing (or sharing) anything super novel with all this coding superpower they have suddenly attained so there's nothing technically interesting to talk about.
You don’t see a relation there?
i read some of these posts and it feels like the experience with boomers i had to help with their computers at my college job.
they did the least and expected the most.