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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

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51 points ForHackernews | 2 comments | 07 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.566s | source
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OtomotO ◴[07 Sep 25 20:40 UTC] No.45161933[source]▶
Something can be useful and still be a bubble at the same time.

AI is such a thing.

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jstummbillig ◴[07 Sep 25 20:56 UTC] No.45162061[source]▶
Care to explain?
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1. MattPalmer1086 ◴[07 Sep 25 21:29 UTC] No.45162354[source]▶
This is like the dot com bubble. The web was ultimately transformative, but the early days see all kinds of wild things that don't work so well and massive investment in them.

It is genuinely a useful technology. But it can't do everything and we will have to figure out where it works well and where it doesn't

For myself, I am not a huge user of it. But on my personal projects I have:

1) built graphing solutions in JavaScript in a day despite not really knowing the language or the libraries. This would have taken me weeks (elapsed) rather than one Saturday.

2) finished a large test suite, again in a day that would have been weeks of elapsed effort for me.

3) figured out how to intercept messages to alter default behaviour in a java swing ui. Googling didnt help.

So I have found it to be a massive productivity boost when exploring things I'm not familiar with, or automating boring tests. So I'm surprised that the study says developers were slower using it. Maybe they were holding it wrong ;)

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2. sharemywin ◴[08 Sep 25 15:12 UTC] No.45169326[source]▶
a few possibilities for me are: over engineering, rabbit holes, trying to build on top of something that only 80% works, and trying to fix something you don't understand how it works. also integrating in with existing code bases. it will ignore field name capitalization, forget about fields, other things like that.

I prefer working with AI but it ain't prefect for sure.