But, I just truly don’t find it interesting. For all those that do - great! But for myself, for whatever reason it just does not scratch that part of my brain. I’d rather spend days writing and debugging code (to create a 5 minute automation ;) ) than having Ai spit something out in 10 seconds.
I just use Ai like a supercharged stack overflow. Ask it something if I have a syntax error or whatever, and then move on by continuing to use my own brain to think through the logic and patterns of my project.
All that to say - I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!
Anyone have other spaces, blogs, communities, or whatever where you go to learn and/or discuss interesting things that don’t have anything to do with Ai?
The key difference: smaller communities attract people who are there for the craft, not engagement metrics.
Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era?
>Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang)
Even less niche places like /r/python seem pretty open to writing code by hand. (Though I like how python has libraries for many things)