Comment by vendiddy

Comment by vendiddy 19 hours ago

I love coding but I also love AI.

I don't know if I'm a minority but I'd like to think there are a lot of folks like me out there.

You can compare it to someone who is writing assembly code and now they've been introduced to C. They were happy writing assembly but now they're thrilled they can write things more quickly.

Sure, AI could lead us to write buggier code. Sure, AI could make us dumber because we just have AI write things we don't understand. But neither has to be the case.

With better tools, we'll be able to do more ambitious things.

amiantos 4 hours ago

We're the silent majority, I'm pretty sure. If you love coding, you probably love technology, and if you love technology, you probably love AI, which is inarguably the most interesting tech advancement in this decade.

The others, who are not like us? They've got other priorities. If you hate coding but you love AI, you're probably into software engineering because of the money, not love of technology. If you love coding and you hate AI, you're probably more committed to some sort of ideology than you are the love of technology. If you hate coding and you hate AI, well, I hope you throw your cellphone into the river and find a nice cabin in the woods somewhere to hide in.

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simonw 16 hours ago

I think there are a lot of us, but the people who dislike AI are much more vocal in online conversations about it.

(The hype merchant, LinkedIn influencer, Twitter thread crowd are super noisy but tend to stick to their own echo chambers, it's rare to have them engage in a forum like Hacker News directly.)

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square_usual 16 hours ago

> I don't know if I'm a minority

No, there's plenty of top-class engineers who love coding with AI. e.g. Antirez.

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ang_cire 15 hours ago

I love AI as a concept.

I hate the reality of our current AI, which is benefitting corporations over workers, being used for surveillance and censorship (nevermind direct social control via misinformation bots), and is copying the work of millions without compensating them in order to do it.

And the push for coders to use it to increase their output, will likely just end up meaning expectations of more LoC and more features faster, for the same pay.

But FOSS, self-hosted LLMs? Awesome!

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senko 14 hours ago

How is using Claude over Llama benefitting corporations over workers? I work with AI every day and sum total of my token spend across all providers is less than a single NVidia H100 card I'd have to buy (from a pretty big corporation!), at the very least, for comparable purpose?
How are self-hosted LLMs not copying the work of millions without compensating them for it?
How is the push for more productivity through better technology somehow bad?
I am pro FOSS but can't understand this comment.

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