Comment by citizenpaul
6 days ago
>these agent posts are paid advertising.
I'm 100% certain most if not all of them are, there is simply too much money flying around and I've seen things that marketing does in the past for way less hyped products. Though in this specific case I think the writer may simply be shilling AI to create demand for their service. Pay us monthly to one click deploy your broken incomplete AI slop. The app doesn't work? No problem just keep prompting harder and paying us more to host/build/test/deploy it...
I've also tried the agent thing and still am with only moderate success. Cursor, Claud-squad, goose, dagger AI agents. In other words all the new hotness, all with various features claiming to solve the fact that agents don't work. Guess what? they still don't.
But hey this is HN? most of the posters are tech fearing luddies right? All the contention on here must mean our grindset is wrong and we are not prompting hard enough.
There is even one shill Ghuntly that claims you need to be "redlining" ai at the cost of $500-$1000 per day to get the full benefits. LOL if that is not a veiled advertisement I don't know what is.
Nobody has paid me to write anything about AI and if they did I would disclose it.
ditto - https://ghuntley.com/disclosures
Forgive me if I don't consider your personal blog an authority of your honesty. "I'm not a liar, for real dude see it says right there"
Why are all your public projects "joke/toy projects" if AI is so awesome and production ready? My experience reflects this as the truth. Yet your work backs up my experience rather than your words.
To avoid only being snark. I think all software is about power/control and software has allowed unprecedented concentration of power Which is why it resists being official like other industries. No one with power wants restrictions on their power/software. Ultimately AI is good for small'ish projects and a productivity multiplier(eventually). I think it will lead a new revolution in distilling the current incumbents in the business world that are stagnant on vast proprietary software systems that previously could not be unseated. Small players will be able to codify/automate their business to make it competitive with big players. So I'm not "anti-ai".
edit: AI will simultaneously rot the proprietary software advantage from the inside out. As companies are further convinced that AI can solve their problem of having to pay people to maintain their software.
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So you have no reply to my straightforward question? If AI has made you 1000x productive why do you only post self described toy/joke projects?
I know the answer though. Its because that is all it is good for. Everyone that has tried these tools knows that.