It already lead to a reduction in quality of life.
AI has already poisoned the internet with slop, making successfully searching for information much harder.
More personally for hacker news folks, the early promise of AI making programming easier is an illusion. The combination of pressure from management to make AI hype work, vs the actual performance degradation most programmers working on legacy apps experience makes the job harder, not easier.
I've seen this adage floating around for a while now: if it's not worth writing then it's not worth reading. It sums up the current state of AI pretty succinctly for me.
AI has already poisoned the internet with slop, making successfully searching for information much harder.
More personally for hacker news folks, the early promise of AI making programming easier is an illusion. The combination of pressure from management to make AI hype work, vs the actual performance degradation most programmers working on legacy apps experience makes the job harder, not easier.
I've seen this adage floating around for a while now: if it's not worth writing then it's not worth reading. It sums up the current state of AI pretty succinctly for me.