Comment by troupo

19 days ago

Functional illiteracy and lack of any capacity to hold any context longer than two sentences has long been a plague on HN. Now that we've outsourced our entire thinking process to "@grok is this true", it has now claimed almost the entirety of human race.

soulofmischief: complains that AI-skeptics would say the Wright brothers were idiots because they didn't imediately implement a supersonic jet

ares623: we were promised supersonic jets today or very soon (translation: AI hype and scam artists have already promised a lot now)

eru: The passive voice is doing a lot of work in your sentence. (Translation: he questions the validity of ares623's statement)

me: Here are just three examples of hype and scam promising the equivalent of super jet today, with some companies already being burned by these promises.

soulofmischief: some incoherent rambling

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soulofmischief  18 days ago

Apply your own "functional literacy". I made a clarification that those outside of an industry have to separate the opinions of professionals and hype artists.

The irony of your comment would be salient, if it didn't feel like I was speaking with a child. This conversation is over, there's no reason to continue speaking with you as long you maintain this obnoxious attitude coupled with bad reading comprehension.

  • troupo  18 days ago

    It's a hillarious attempt to save face.

    "Separate opinions of professionals" etc.

    Here's Ryan Dahl, cofounder of Deno, creator of Node.js tweeting today:

    --- start quote ---

    This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

    https://x.com/rough__sea/status/2013280952370573666

    --- end quote ---

    Professional enough for you?

    • ares623  18 days ago

      They have everything to gain by saying those things. It doesn’t even need to be true. All the benefits arrive at the point of tweeting.

      If it turns out to be not true then they don’t lose anything.

      So we are in a state where people can just say things all the time. Worse, they _have_ to say. To them, Not saying anything is just as bad as being directly against the hype. Zero accountability.

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    • soulofmischief  16 days ago

      Yes, my point is that industry professionals are re-calibrating based on the last year of agentic coding advancements, and that this is different from hype men on YouTube from 1-2 years ago claiming that they don't have to write code anymore.

      Congratulations, now you're starting to understand! :)