This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN projects are overall pretty boring. They generally don't have a lot of work put into them, and as a result, the author (pilot?

AI models are extremely bad at original thinking, so any thinking that is offloaded to a LLM is as a result usually not very original, even if they’re very good at treating your inputs to the discussion as amazing genius level insights.

  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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    8 days ago

    That link doesn’t load for me, but my favorite is when some does a pseudo version of the goat/lettuce/wolf puzzle that has nothing to do with the original and just obliquely references it and the AI just gives the answer to the original puzzle. Obviously the how many Rs is funny too.