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Ask HN: Is building for the web even worth it now?

47 points·by spaceman_2020·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·36 comments

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spaceman_2020
·เมื่อวานซืน·discuss
Damn fun and challenging

Congrats! This looks like a daily one for me
spaceman_2020
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You just end up creating a doom loop where everyone is using the same tools to create similar content and eventually, no one really cares about the content because all of it is the same

I’ve already seen this in my own behavior where anything even remotely AI-generated makes me tune out completely
spaceman_2020
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It’s creating this weird flatness everywhere where people are using it to create things that don’t matter (LinkedIn posts, dull corporate presentations). But because everyone is also using it for the exact same purposes, the same things now matter even less

LinkedIn posts never really mattered. But because everyone is now using broadly the same tools and prompts to create LinkedIn posts, the posts matter even less now
spaceman_2020
·8 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Sure, its very useful. I’m not denying its utility.

I just wonder if the utility merits the resources allocated to it
spaceman_2020
·9 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI

It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
spaceman_2020
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Opus 4.8 is genuinely one of the most frustrating models in casual use. It has a tendency to completely lose context in the middle of a conversation. It’s also too pedantic and nitpicky, and relies on language that’s way too specific to get any work done. I always end up being frustrated with it and revert to opus 4.6
spaceman_2020
·29 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I mentally switch off the moment I see an AI vibecoded landing page or article or video

I don't care what your offer is - if you can't even be bothered to even dress up your stuff for me, a human, I'm not going to consume it
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Kimi 2.6 has been my workhorse now. It's as good as Opus 4.6, which, to me, was the last "useful" Claude model.

The newer models are smarter but really ficklle and hard to get meaningful work out of

4.6 was a workhorse
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
It's also such a recursive problem - there aren't enough kids, so your kids don't have enough kids to play with, so you don't have more kids

I remember almost never sitting inside my house after school. I had two elder siblings and we had probably 30 odd kids in my locality. We would all be out all the time. Safety wasn't an issue because there were some older kids in the group too who could be counted on to keep things in line

Now my daughter has just 3-5 kids of her age in my locality, and because they don't have any older siblings, they always have to be accompanied by adults
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
It’s a problem for capitalists, not the people themselves

The people want cheaper prices, affordable housing, affordable healthcare

Capitalism has decided that these problems aren’t worth solving. Instead, we must optimize for spam and slop (and call it “distribution”)
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
OpenRouter’s founder jumping from NFTs to AI has to be studied. Seriously the goat of sector rotation
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
it was also astonishingly lazy. Would just ask me to write test scripts. I asked it to create simple UI buttons for testing some basic functions so I could share it with a client, and it gave me curl commands instead - and then defended it by saying that the UI is wasted work

Frustrating because if I have a tool, I expect a tool to do what I tell it to do. Tools shouldn't have any opinions on how they should be used
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I think 4.7 was an awful model in actual use. I never got anything out of it and it was frustratingly weird. This feels more like an attempt to course correct and isn't a real bump
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Just hire people and pay then a fair wage and let everyone get richer together ffs

When did American capitalism become such a zero sum game
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I’m also detecting a vibe shift in AI content

The mood has gone quickly from “this is cool” to “screw AI and any business that wants to use it”

This is particularly clear among the taste making class
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
I use AI as an amateur producer simply to get ideas

I would NEVER EVER consider using AI in something I actually release to listeners

I don't care if its good or bad. If I'm making someone listen something, it should've been touched by my hand - even if that means turning a knob in a DAW
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Good. This should be done everywhere. I have ZERO interest in watching an AI movie or an AI song or an AI video

Genuinely don't care if its good or not. It's not for me
spaceman_2020
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?

I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github
spaceman_2020
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Indian bureaucracy thinks extremely short term. The state prioritizes extracting revenue over all else. So many baffling short-term decisions over everything from corporate tax breaks to a incentives for global events like Formula 1.l

You really can’t expect the same bureaucratic setup to think in terms of the decade+ it would take to be competent at something like chips
spaceman_2020
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
As an Indian, my quality of life would be improved more by the Indian state first figuring out how to make functional roads and garbage collection systems

India needs to first figure out the absolute basics