alt Hacker NewsI've been coding professionally for over 30 years. LLMs have changed the profession more in the last 12 months than anything else has in all that 30 years.
I would totally understand your position if it was, say, crypto that you wanted to exclude. The whole of crypto finance is an edifice of scam built on some interesting but not very useful maths, and there's nothing to redeem it. There are no interesting tech discussions to be had there.
And sure, there are plenty of AI scam artists out there (most seem to have switched from Crypto experts to AI experts in the last couple of years).
But the underlying tech that is being used in AI is not only interesting, but also useful. I'm seeing people who have never coded before produce some cool apps. OK, they're not production-grade, but that's still new people doing new and interesting stuff with this tech. My own workflow is profoundly different from what it was a year ago. I've seen old problems that were really incredibly difficult to fix collapse completely using this tech. It's a useful tool if you're developing software. I suspect there are other areas of human endeavour where it will be useful too. I very much doubt it will replace all human work, or become sentient.
I think we need to separate out the AI business, which is its usual mess of scam, exaggeration, and buffoonery, and the actual AI tech, which is producing some really useful tools.
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You speak it gracefully. People who have never coded....
Are you volunteering to fix their bugs?
I was fired from my first software job the day I showed up. It was 1982. The Apple II was quite mature the PC was on scene.
I showed up 30 mins late. The software chief fired me.
I said "why Im only 30 mins late?", he replied "because I can write a complete accounts receivable system in 30 mins."
I was 14.
And he wasnt lying. He could. Using tools available to him in 1982.
You in 2026, cannot using an LLM, maybe the sass is there. But YOU cant make it. Copy and paste and prebuilt apps will always and forever beat intellectual property theft obfuscation.
Dont get any ideas this didnt happen here. This was in Alabama.
Im still coding professionally.
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Not only that but it impinges on your life; it would be irresponsible to ignore it. There goes your job while you weren't paying attention... This is the mother of all tech revolutions. There will never ever be anything as big as AI, especially after embodiment.
As a consultant I am looking forward to being hired by companies to get rid of all the vibe code and to replace it with beautiful maintainable artisanal code.
> The whole of crypto finance is an edifice of scam
That is straight-up false. It's best to not speak of things you don't properly understand. If it were true, they wouldn't hold the financial value that they do or anywhere close to it. You don't know the first thing about its utility and place in the financial sector.
People will try to scam others in basically every sector, even in academia. It doesn't in any way invalidate the respective sector.
OP does not want to censor AI topics from every news source. They want news sources which provide access to topics that exclude AI. (Without necessarily those same sources excluding AI entirely.)
This is legitimate. There are many topics in computing and tech.
Not wanting to read about AI in every category is much the same like not wanting to see a C++ forum filled with threads about Angular.