Finally some writing that I can support!

From the comments:

attitude towards GenAI in Hacker News through out the years. This is totally vibe based and I don’t have numbers to back it up, but back in 2022-2023, the site was dominantly people who mostly treat GenAI as a curious technology without too much attachment, and some non-trivial amount of folks who are very skeptical of the tech. More recently I see a lot more people who see themselves as evangelists and try very hard to boost/advocate the technology (see all the “LLM coding changes my life” posts). It seems that the tide has turned back a little bit again since we now see this kind of posts surfacing.

I’ve found discussion of any vaguely anti-AI viewpoint on HN gets you flamed and down voted these days.

I know it’s a VC funded site to push their own companies and they hide results they don’t like, but the users themselves have become pretty toxic in a few areas like that.

I’ve also noticed a lot of blind support for DOGE which I find concerning. I think a lot of people in tech, like myself, have had bad experiences with the traditional system, but the DOGE approach is generally not beneficial.

I do wish my government would actually bring in people who understand tech, but doing so by burning it all down and pushing all the data to private corporations is not the way.

fundamentally conservative

This is my first time hearing of this. I’ve only ever heard of LLMs failing to side with the right despite efforts to fine tune or prompt them to do so.

I suppose when the author says AI they mean LLMs. The machine learning models that, say, interpret mammograms don’t have nearly the same issues, and I’d hate to see them all thrown on the pyre together.