I grin a bit whenever someone gets that infantile on what's supposed to be a board of high-minded intellectual sophisticates.
But I'm serious. This forum is meant for human beings to satisfy their intellectual curiosity discussing topics of interest which are usually but don't need to be related to tech or programming. The humanity matters, even if it's damned hard to find sometimes because expressing humanity is a negative social signal here.
AI may be the nexus of the industry at the moment but it's destroying everything this community and culture are supposed to be about. Every vibe coded project, every comment passed through ChatGPT, every conversation lacking in any technical merit because 99% of people here only know how to engineer a prompt and are aggressively ignorant about everything else. Every tedious philosophical drain-circling about whether AIs are sentient or whether humans even are. Every arrogant declaration by AI bros about its futility. And the implication behind all of it that the human element doesn't matter.
I mean, Show HN is supposed to be a place for passion projects, and it's turned into nothing but vibe-coded slop. It isn't fun anymore.
So they don't want us here, and we don't want them here. Someone vibe code a forum - because no one else will want to touch it then - and the AI bros can leave so those of us who think human effort still has value can discuss the things we have an interest in in peace, and there they can be as positive about AI as they want.
krapp|19 days ago
But I'm serious. This forum is meant for human beings to satisfy their intellectual curiosity discussing topics of interest which are usually but don't need to be related to tech or programming. The humanity matters, even if it's damned hard to find sometimes because expressing humanity is a negative social signal here.
AI may be the nexus of the industry at the moment but it's destroying everything this community and culture are supposed to be about. Every vibe coded project, every comment passed through ChatGPT, every conversation lacking in any technical merit because 99% of people here only know how to engineer a prompt and are aggressively ignorant about everything else. Every tedious philosophical drain-circling about whether AIs are sentient or whether humans even are. Every arrogant declaration by AI bros about its futility. And the implication behind all of it that the human element doesn't matter.
I mean, Show HN is supposed to be a place for passion projects, and it's turned into nothing but vibe-coded slop. It isn't fun anymore.
So they don't want us here, and we don't want them here. Someone vibe code a forum - because no one else will want to touch it then - and the AI bros can leave so those of us who think human effort still has value can discuss the things we have an interest in in peace, and there they can be as positive about AI as they want.