Comment by slopinthebag
18 hours ago
Why do AI boosters like yourself all have the same writing style? Was the comment AI generated?
It's like insane hype marketing speak. "insanely agile products delivered" like huh?
18 hours ago
Why do AI boosters like yourself all have the same writing style? Was the comment AI generated?
It's like insane hype marketing speak. "insanely agile products delivered" like huh?
> Why do AI boosters like yourself...
I believe that I am more of an AI realist. The agentic dev tools are really helping me out, but if I could wave a magic wand to make AI go away for a hundred years, I would do it.
I really hope that we can all laugh at how wrong I was.
However, I believe that the horrors will likely outweigh the benefits. Our global society/political systems are not ready for Stasi as a Service, mass unemployment, or any of this impending crap storm.
Getting in on the astounding action before the world turns to shit.
Who could call me a starry-eyed idealist? I have invested in bunkers.
lol. I have been a starry-eyed idealist all of my life. I would like to think that I still am.
I hate money.
You know what I hate even more? Being the supposed "smart one," and having to borrow money from my entire family to get through my health issues.
I will never do that again, hopefully.
To me it is more like software consultant speak than AI booster speak. And it is not exactly surprising that the people in a particular subculture all talk similarly.
Well, I hear it from people who are regular devs and not consultants, although it's more common with people who aren't really working in the trenches anymore.
Like ex-developer turned PM who is now vibe coding everything they can and thinks it's the greatest thing ever.
I'll trust someone who has an account since 2018 vs 71 days ago. Especially when your name already indicates you're biased.
I've had an account for a while too, and I do think that that GP comment has a style typical of "AI boosters" -- breathless, big on hyperbole, and low on detail.
To the GP: I'd like some details of these "insanely agile products". Is this insane agility reflected by your customers saying that they have a better, faster, more reliable product? How are you measuring this?
Wym "trust"? What is there to "trust" with my comment? Huh?
It's like insane hype marketing speak because that is genuinely the difference from what it was like to develop software 6 months ago. You see many people using the same language, often in comments that are otherwise stylistically quite different, because many people are experiencing the same thing.
I get that it's tedious to sit on tech forums listening to an endless stream of people insisting that suchandsuch technology is world-changing. Many people and probably most people who say that are wrong. But sometimes the world really does change.
> I get that it's tedious to sit on tech forums listening to an endless stream of people insisting that suchandsuch technology is world-changing.
It's tedious because the insistence doesn't seem to be matched by much observable change.
There's substantial observable change pointing towards a universal software development speedup in the neighborhood of 2x. Much of it is internal company metrics, simply because it's meaningless in most enterprise contexts to count how much software is released. Things you can count, like the number of phone apps published, show the same pattern: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-a...
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It's "world changing" yet the world seems mostly the same other than the increasing enshittification of everything...