Ask HN: As a human, are you glad the AI bubble is bursting?

5 points·roschdal··6 comments

Wait, is it bursting?

After it bursts, then what? Is AI going to get less useful? Will there be less demand for AI? Are we going back to a world without AI?

AI as a tool has made my job measurably easier and faster. The only problem I have with it is that I used to find programming to be fun and genuinely entertaining. Since I've been using AI in my workflow, the fun (even tho it's still there) has been diminished to an insane degree...

At the end of the day, the job isn't suppose to be fun, it's just suppose to get done :/

Not sure how I feel about it entirely but I am not opposed to being able to more easily put food on the table

That's how I feel about it, productivity gain of 10-100x is definitely real, but switching from programming to being a callcenter agent is hard on the mind, I know personally many people depressed because of it, the loss of ability to write code is also quite real, it's not clear if it matters for the future, but it's sad to see decades of problem solving and software engineering turning into speaking with a machine all day long.

nothing ever happens.

every bubble bursts. usually the useful parts survive and the slide decks don't. ai won't be different.

AI has never been as cheap as now, can you elaborate on the "bubble is bursting"?

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