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The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

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451 points imartin2k | 1 comments | 06 Jul 25 06:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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dang ◴[06 Jul 25 12:45 UTC] No.44480332[source]▶
I also find these features annoying and useless and wish they would go away. But that's not because LLMs are useless, nor because the public isn't using them (as daishi55 pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479578)

It's because the integrations with existing products are arbitrary and poorly thought through, the same way that software imposed by executive fiat in BigCo offices for trend-chasing reasons has always been.

petekoomen made this point recently in a creative way: AI Horseless Carriages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773813 - April 2025 (478 comments)

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1. skeptrune ◴[06 Jul 25 19:30 UTC] No.44483325[source]▶
There's nuance in that the better ways to add AI into these projects make less money and wouldn't deliver on the hype these companies are looking for.