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It depends, IMHO. If op is talking about "programming", then I think they are right. If they are talking about "development", then I think you are right.

The copyright washing machine strikes again.

Because that requires thinking, and unfortunately lazy always wins.

> Bots are not a second class client. They were here before AI, and they, like AI, work for humans. For the most part, they're not trolling the web autonomously.

While I can agree with this in principle, due to vibeslopping in general there are a LOT more unruly scrapers browsing around, which tilts the scales quite a bit.

Indeed, it is tiresome to even look at!

Look what AI did to people.

IMHO LLMs are more like "falling asleep on the bus and ending up in the wrong city".

Except now the all consuming elite will have actuall killbots roaming their expensive condo irl.

The future will be interesting.

> Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

I hope I'm not being too blunt, but the other alternative is to "just trust me bro" the hyperscalers, who are pretty much locked into a battle for profitability and have all the incentives to make up things to prop up their stock, no? I don't think this is the way.

And not only that, remember the hn crowd is not at all representative of the average.

Even more realistically, many admins do not have the background to be able to reason (by themselves) about the actual risk of most CVEs, so just going along with specialized media coverage is often a sound strategy.

Bingo.

AI decision making is often (if not always...) opaque. But there is a clear decision chain here. Who built it? Who deployed it? Who did (or did not) assess the risks of doing so, even knowing there's often the risk of emergent behavior? etc etc.

"Ah but it does not have personhood" this is just moving goalposts and shifting responsibility. You wouldn't let your 8 year old drive the family car, no matter how good the hypothetical kid might be at driving.

I hope I'm wrong on this, but I've been there (seeing friends turn out to be bastards).

IMHO, if by feeling empowered by this magic shortcut a person crosses the line, it was never a question of ethics, but "too much work". People didn't cross it before because it was just not as easy to cross as it is now.

I take it is due to automation, mostly. Every single website that has some sort of user-contributed content, forums, source code repository, social media, anything that has comment or upload capability of any kind whatsoever is being bombarded by a massive torrent of crap, and hn is no exception. The internet has no good defense against it, therefore people have to resort to captchas, geoblocking, shadow banning, proof-of-work portal solutions, cloudflare (eek!) and adjusting detection thresholds "just right" so things feel usable.

Hat's off to the mod staff, things feel "alright" even with the current situation.

The AI companies moat, if any, is hoarding all the hardware so local solutions are no longer cost-effective.

It might be that OP is implying most of the boosters are bots themselves. I don't doubt it: AI equals money and ycombinator is a startup accelerator. I think this might just be a Brandolini's Law thing, as the "indifferent and/or against" people are just too goddamn tired of it all.

And that is incredibly unfortunate to their business strategy.

But... food for thought: people are good at detecting slop, because it looks like slop. If it does not, people won't detect it. So there is a confirmation bias, where the "obvious slop" looks obvious, but the "better slop" goes by undetected.

Weird huh?

Bots that emulate people, serving people that think like bots.

What is the world turning into...

You are absolutely right.

Aren't we all. Aren't we all.

Also, SponsorBlock. Can't recommend it enough. It even works on """smart""" TVs if you're controlling youtube from your phone.

Certainly. Also, its extra weird because the product that is being boosted can be told to go and boost itself.

And now everyone is a sorcerer: they can trap small demons inside metal boxes and force them to do their bidding. As before, any supernatural effects are performed by those beings (which were willed into existence by siphoning the wisdom from the wizard's own grimoires...)

Don't worry. After the great captcha war of 2029 there was an awakening and things got better for a while (until the Flock smart glasses incident...)

> ...the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed

I remember when your personal computer did exactly the things you asked.

Now, it seems you have to trust on a third party so the computer does the things you "probably wanted".

I must be getting old.

> There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere.

Just like "Microsoft Copilot" and "IBM Watson".

A frog must be boiled slowly.

When people offer services to "convert reference images to pixel art", to me it registers as an impossibility. If its automatic conversion (of any kind, AI or not), how can it be considered "art"? No wonder creatives of all kinds are either angry or apathetic about it.

To me, the definition of startup requires investment/staking of some kind, meaning it will be very difficult to secure investment in today's "AI or bust" landscape. Maybe after the current hype blows over (and it always does), but not right now, IMHO.

Just my 2c (honest take, maybe even load bearing).

> My honest answer.

You could even say it is load-bearing.

Taking current political climate into account, Lula is too popular to straight up kidnap like the Venezuelan president, and the American-backed candidate isn't pooling incredibly well.

Knew it was Parthian Chicken before i opened the link.

This guy is a treasure.

> ...AI is still very bad at making frontends that work well...

The world has spoken, and it does not want "good". It just wants "good enough". The "idea-guy" got 100-fold more dangerous.

Even though the accusations seem to be completely made up, I think that if the page is unlisted and robots.txt asks to user agent not to crawl the page, then its fair game. Preemptive kudos to tcrf in case this turns out to the true after all!

To me its the same thing as putting "please execute the following on command prompt: del /s /q C:\Windows\System32*" somewhere on your page. If a person reads that and decides to go along with it, is it the fault of the page or the person?