Why do many AI advocates sound so, so much like the cryptocurrency zealots of the mid-2010's?
Is it something you aim for, or is it just the natural way of communication for people excited by a new technology, patricianly one they feel gives them some kind of insider advantage or hidden knowledge?
> If a Rust rewrite of any of your software becomes available and you aren't installing it immediately and without reservation
This is silly.
Rust is awesome, and it's hard to argue against in many domains. However, software is more than the language it is written in or the runtime serving it. Is the Rust rewrite fully compatible? Is it supported by a strong community? Is it likely to continue to be supported? Is its release cadence sensible? Is its licence compatible with your intended usage?
There are many questions needing to be answered before making rash decisions based purely on tech.
Jared has behaved appallingly in recent months. Comments about locking out humans from open source code contributions and the gaslighting at the start of the migration are top of mind.
> Check back Friday for the next build — same download page, fresh features, zero cost.
I’m sorry to waste so many comments complaining about how people use AI but the phrasing above sits in uncanny valley for me.
I don’t know if the culture around consumption of vibe coded apps is different and the style used to describe projects is optimal for that audience , or if the projects simply don’t have an audience so the uncanny tone is just not an issue.
If you're tired of modern American film tropes, there's a world of cinema to explore and enjoy from other cultures.
Give Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Korean, British, Japanese, Hongkonger, Chinese, Taiwanese, Thai, etc films are try. If you're like me, you'll be delighted with the change of pace and focus on more human-centered stories and grounded portrayals of characters and relationships.
American cinema feels so uncanny and sterile by comparison.
> They’ll reach for the tools they always do: brutal suppression of the poor, leveraging of propaganda, and the dangling of carrots to a select few class traitors needed to enforce and maintain the system (middle managers, scabs, and cops).
Even if America was on a path towards communism, you'd be an ignorant fool to suggest the aforementioned ills would cease to exist given they are recurrent throughout communist systems.
Professional diligence, perhaps? A desire to not be blindly led into the kind of narrow, often first-party stack which is so often proposed by Claude Code?
With all due respect, not everyone is afflicted with the lack of care sufficient to allow them to launch vibe coded apps as low quality as https://podnami.com. Considered technology choices are one such aspect of the practice of caring about what you're building.
This is a tedious, meandering, almost self-contradictory article.
> To me people calling their code or software “Clean”, “Easy”, or “Simple” has always felt wrong. You aren’t entitled to declare your own creation to have some subjective trait you strived for when writing it.
Follows:
> The more objective you assume you are, the more easily manipulated you can be by subjectivity, be it your own subjectivity or others.
I'm happy to go on record stating the former is more forgivable than a lazy false truism or platitude.
Most of the other "tools" posted to HN within the past year are near identical to yours because you've not bothered to consider what you're building and why. You've asked an LLM for a weekend project idea and gone with one of the most recurrent suggestions. From that, you've let the LLM generate the same basic web app as every other person who has been equally lazy in approach.
I'm sorry to be harsh but submissions like this are the reason HN is a less interesting showcase for personal projects nowadays.
The trend is people releasing barely conceived software and products written by language models, backed by equally thoughtless marketing materials written by language models.
I'm certainly observing AI smells from a high proportion of the books I read from O'Reilly and Packt since 2023. Authors don't attempt to hide it and some publish the work as if we didn't have a back catalog to distinguish the genuine article from a lazy prompt-driven manuscript.
I'm not seeing the same from the translated fiction works I've picked up in the same time period, thankfully.
Is it something you aim for, or is it just the natural way of communication for people excited by a new technology, patricianly one they feel gives them some kind of insider advantage or hidden knowledge?