Comment by kazinator
17 days ago
Touching on a subject doesn't make something directly topical.
Makefiles touch on C programming; they are not topical in a C language forum.
Most AI discussion as a tangent to another topic is utterly unproductive, uninteresting, repetitive and off-topic. The same half a dozen points are rehashed. Most of the commentary is someone's subjective experience which nobody else can exactly replicate.
Almost everything in tech runs on switching power supplies. That doesn't mean tech forums on all subjects should tolerate intruders incessantly blathering about power supplies.
Actually, talking about power in the age of AI is a big deal. It will either drive up energy cost or drive down energy cost.
80% of the companies that YC funding are AI something or the other. If your career has anything to do with technology - you are or will be directly affected by AI.
Would you have felt the same way if people complained about all of the discussions about mobile around 2009-2010? People on Usenet complaining about the browser was going to usurp the need for Gopher servers?