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.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    My email keeps making fully completed response emails and they’re dreadfully boring. Same for my texting app. It’s all so… unoriginal.

    Even an official reply to something, like a doctor or a student, I can’t imagine not writing it myself.