Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

I deeply wish to hear about other tech trends; I get enough of use more ai, do more with less, and ship faster at work. I'd rather hear about new tools and techniques here

It's the most transformative technology I've clocked in my lifetime (and that includes home computers and the Internet).

Large organizations are making major decisions on the basis of it. Startups new and old will live and die by the shift that it's creating (is SaaS dead? Well investors will make it so). Mass engineering layoffs could be inevitable.

Sure. I vibe coded a thing is getting pretty tired. The rest? If anything we're not talking about it enough.

It's ruined the sparkle emoji for everyone.

No, because what most people miss about AI is that…

I’m just kidding. LinkedIn feed became so unbearable, that I had to install an extension to turn it off.

I'm bored of the everyday Claude spam. I've used Claude extensively and it was very sub par.

Yes!

Sounds very much like this blog I read too… he laughs at AI in his workplace a lot Www.sometimesworking.com

Let's get back to filling the front page with Web3, DeFi, NFTs. Oh the good ol' days.

yes, so bored. yada yada.. i've been 'obsolete' for 36 years and counting.

Never tired of talking about AI. There are so many fascinating aspects to explore and papers delivering new ideas. It's a bit tiring keeping up with the new stuff but talking about what we've found is one of the things that makes it easier to keep up.

I'm somewhat tired of seeing the same rehashed claims of future ability, non-ability, profit, loss.

I actually like talking about the implications, future risks and challenges of AI. I have made submissions on ways AI should be regulated to benefit society. The problem is the assumption of what is happening and what will happen.

To many people seem to enter the conversation feeling that the absence of doubt is the same thing as being informed.

And especially people making claims based on premises that they seem to believe that if they build big enough towers on them, they will become true.

The number one thing that bothers me in all this, is people assuming the contents of the minds of others.

I find the pathologising of Sam Altman to be the most egregious form of this. It is one thing to disagree with someone's decisions, another thing to disagree with their stated opinions, but to decide upon a person's character based upon what you believe they are thinking in their private thoughts is simply projection.

I know this is an opinion of little worth to many, but my impression of Sam Altman is just a person who has different perspectives to me. The capitalist tech world he lives in would inevitably shape different values to me. What I have seen of him is consistent with a sincere expression of values. I can accept that a person might do something different to what I would, even the opposite of what I want while believing that they can be doing so for reasons that seem to be morally the right thing to do.

This also happened with cryptocurrency. Crypto advocates believe that it is a good thing for the world. Too many consider those who believe that crypto could benefit society to be evil. There is a difference between being wrong and being evil. No matter how certain you are you can still be wrong, in fact beyond a point I would say increased certancy would indicate a higher likelihood of being wrong.

So I'm happy to talk about AI. I have plenty to learn. I wonder if others went in with the goal to learn whether they would find it less tiring.

I am. To keep talking about it I might just deploy a chatbot to do that for me.

Of course talking about AI is boring.

The analogy is someone from the 19th century talking about their slaves all day which is of course nonsense because they had other things to talk about.

I've been sick of it since 2022.

I wish there was an option to hide AI stories on HN, and AI-related repos on Github's trending page.

You could use AI to do it! Fight fire with fire.

I'm neutral on AI - so far it seems useful but flawed. But I don't want to hear about it constantly.

I'm not.

At least I'm not tired of talking about how it's killing websites and filling everything with spam. I have spent most of a decade building a useful resource, and Google AI overviews has killed my traffic. It killed everyone's traffic. This thing gave me purpose, and I'm watching AI slowly strangle it.

I mourn the death of the independent web, and it frightens me that this is still the happy stage. We haven't yet felt the effect of stiffing content creators, and the LLM tools haven't yet begun to enshittify.

I am tired of discussions about agentic coding, but I would feel a lot better if we acknowledged all the harm being caused. Big tech went all in on this, stealing everything, putting everyone out of work, using up all resources with no regards for consequences, and they threaten to kill the economy if we don't let them have their way.

I feel like we are heading for a much worse place as a society, and all we can talk about is how to 10x our bullshit jobs, because we're afraid of falling behind.

To answer the OP's question, apparently not! :)

Management spins up something on Lovable and believes that building any software is as easy as typing a few prompts.

It's worse when there's a colleague of yours encouraging that by using AI blindly, piling up technical debt just to move at the pace that Management expects after signing you all up on some AI tool.

At the end of the day, everyone is talking about AI. For AI or against AI, it doesn't really matter.

Yup.

Bored of hearing about it, bored of reading about it.

I love using these LLM tools, but honestly, it feels like every man and his dog has something to say about it, and is angling to make a quick buck or two from it.

And the slop, oh my goodness, it's never-ending on every site and service.

It seems some people in this thread are not :)

I'm not bored of the technology per se but the people around it. The yappers, doomers, and the shills are insufferable.

You may be bored of AI, but because AI is not yet bored of us, turning away may be dangerous.

I definitely get the comment about HN and seeing a billion posts about OpenClaw, Claude, or yet another post on an industry being disrupted by AI.

Tack on to that the increasing number of political stuff on here as well just makes it less and less an interesting place to visit.

Don't agree with the angry mob on the political stuff especially and you get downvoted/flagged into oblivion.

Just another echo chamber looking to have viewpoints confirmed in yet another one of the disappearing places online that foster any level of intellectual curiosity.

Nope. It remains the most dynamic and impactful area in software today. I'm sure it will fade in to common practice over the next few years and become less talked about. I find it infinitely more interesting than yet another article talking about the wonders/horrors of the Rust borrow checker.

Anything to distract from the real war, billionaires vs everyone else.

It feels like during the previous hype cycle of bitcoins, blockchains and NFTs. People are trying to find uses for new technologies but it seems like a lot of the conversations come from people (at this point I guess it's still people?) trying to increase the hype. Maybe they are trying to be thought leaders or maybe they are trying to boost some stock valuations.

Yes, all this talk about AI is extremely distracting... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LDPDDS3HaGo

Modern AI is a miracle. The math that makes it work is beautiful and really impressive. For example, if you wanted to map all knowledge on earth, how would you do it? AI answers that question by building a high dimensional vector space of embeddings, and traversing that space moves you through a topology of basically every concept that humans have.

Or another thought; why is it that a stochastic parrot can solve logic puzzles consistently and accurately? It might not be 100%, but it’s still much better than what you might expect from a markov model of ngrams.

Openclaw is only sort of interesting. How to vibe code your first product is uninteresting. Claims about productivity increase from model usage are speculative and uninteresting. Endless think pieces on the effects of AI slop are uninteresting. There’s a lot of hype and grift and bullshit that is downstream of this very interesting technology, and basically none of that is interesting. The cool parts are when you actually open the models up and try to figure out what’s going on.

So no, I’m not bored of talking about AI. I’m not sure I ever will be. My suspicion is that those who are bored of it aren’t digging deep enough. With that said, that will likely only be interesting to people who think math is fun and cool. On the whole, AI is unlikely to affect our lives in proportion to the ink spilled by influencers.

I'm bloody sick of it, but more exhausted than bored. My workflow that was pretty stable for years, keeps changing massively on an almost monthly basis and that means I'm already skipping the fads of the week. What's more annoying is that it feels actually worth it and thus keeps me churning.

Talking about AI being boring is boring as hell for sure.

Honestly, a bit but only because the hype cycle is louder than the genuinely interesting work.

Yes!

There are other interesting things in the world today, and HN is overwhelmed with pretend intelligence.

Hype, detractors, ALL OF IT!

Maybe a separate web page or RSS feed could be created that is dedicated to the subject...

Kinda tired of being inundated with low quality AI slop absolutely everywhere.

Oh great, we're at the stage of constantly talking about it, AND talking about how we're sick of talking about it. Now every article will be as long as before + a prefix paragraph explaining how they know we're all sick of talking about it, but...

Over the last couple of years I've realized how shitty and tiring it is to do anything at all on the computer. Reading something like Reddit was tiring before, because of spam, submarine advertising, etc. But it was still worth it because the signal to noise ratio was still there. Now? No way. Easily 50% of comments are AI generated.

I used to have this idea that if I built something cool it would be valuable to donate it to the world for free. But now increasingly I'd be just making a donation to the training data, and on top of this I'm in competition with AI slop. Most people won't tell the difference and won't care. The noise floor for doing absolutely anything collaboratively on the computer is now 10x higher than it was before, and I'm basically checked out at this point. Even HN is becoming tiring to read since I think around 10-15% of comments that I read are AI generated. When that number reaches 30% I'm done forever, gone. My life is too short to waste time on this shit.

My only hope is that it is such a disaster that it is effectively an extinction level event for this current technoscene (along the lines of the Permian–Triassic extinction event and others).

Then we can get back to the unglamorous, boring, thankless task of delivering business value to paying clients, and the public discourse will no longer be polluted by our inane witterings.

You can call an engineer a "product manager" but that does not make them one.

Yepp.

“it’s all starting to feel a bit… routine” and that’s how I know it’s going to replace me if I stay an employee

i am tired of the desparation of the hype machine.

Not me

AI has become a commodity- for the better or worse. And yes, we should treat it as such, especially no more big ideas from (C-level) managers, please.

I'm just getting started ;)

AI is an ok tool.

I am so over it, its not interesting and none of the people participating in it really have any noteworthy skills. I spend more time lurking in lobste.rs these days than here.

Bored is a nice way to say it. Never has a technology been so odious also been so ubiquitous.

The replies lol.

"Yes" Proceeds to talk about AI.

I am bored of Luddite people yelling at AI

And this one will be different?

> At serious risk of sounding like a heretic here, but I’m kinda bored of talking about AI.

Umm.

> I get it, AI is incredible. I use it every day, it’s completely changed my workflow. I recently started a new role in a tricky domain working at web scale (hey, remember web scale?) and it’s allowed me to go from 0-1 in terms of productivity in a matter of weeks.

It’s all positives. So what’s the problem?

There isn’t a problem with AI. Of course. It’s just the discourse around it is “boring”. And the managers are lame about it.

And what has been the AI discourse for the last few years. The same formula.

- AI is either good

- ... or it is the best thing to have happened to Me

- But I have feelings[1] or concerns about everything around AI, like the discourse, or people having two-hundred concurrent AI agents mania

It’s all just grease for the AI Inevitabilism bytemill.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487774

> … And yes, I’m painfully aware of the irony of a post about moaning about posts about AI. Sorry.

OP can’t even resign himself to being a Type. Sigh. “I know what I just did hehe”

Very self-aware.

And now 117 points and 53 comments in 23 minutes.

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