Humans living forever is inevitable. Galactic colonization, inevitable. Over a long-enough time scale.
AI is inevitable on the same time scale, sure. But can it actually survive as a sustainable business given what is needed to keep it relevant—will people pay what it costs to support said business—not clear. Or, at least in the next five years.
The second generation AI companies will be built on different assumptions and will likely be slower-growing, and that’s when you’ll see it truly become ubiquitous. That could be a decade though.
I doubt that. I think we just fizzle out. The survival of the fittest instincts that made us a successful species is destroying us as we are getting more capable. Our 'leaders' are getting ever more unhinged.
And without faster than light travel there just isn't much point in galactic colonisation. If generations have to live and die in a tin can to get to some remote star, why not just live in that tin can in the first place.
“IT’S THE SAME THING”
is anyone else weirded out by folks chanting this like a mantra? imagine saying this for any other emergent tech. "NFTs are inevitable", "crypto is inevitable", "excel is inevitable", etc.
inevitability != usefulness/profitability
The "I" is doing a lot of work there, heh!
"I've stolen more lines of code ..." would be closer to honest.
What about the labor you steal from the milkmen, butter churners, seamstresses, and elevator operators? How evil of you.
And yeah, I did it. Not you. That money would be in your bank account if you did it. But you didn't.
I personally make these things. I'm not ashamed in the least to say it, because it's true.
It's funny how I'm working around the clock using AI. Because you seem to say this isn't work. And yet I've never been so busy. So can you tell me what's going on here?
How did I manage to build so many useful things for people?
I've had over 40 million downloads of my app recently. Maybe you should think about how people value things instead of relying on your own value system. Your priors might be flawed when it comes to how the rest of society values things.
In fact, I tell myself I wrote it! I've never composed more music since I started prompting streaming apps.
(Did you walk into that one by yourself, or did you have help from Gemini?)
A literal alien technology landed in our laps and you're calling me crazy.
Why are you directing your hate at me instead of trying to figure out how to use the new technology?
You're going to wake up one day and suddenly the entire world will have moved on from your comfort zone.
I read a bit your post history, you're worse than youtube ad clickbait - you never say what you do, just flowery and bombastic language about how great whatever your vague thing is. (Thank you to sibling poster who spilled the beans, see its not too hard, just say " i made a photoshop clone" its less words than what you typed. )
And boss, I was born out of my comfort zone and never really found one, so you don't scare me one drop.
> I personally make these things. I'm not ashamed in the least to say it, because it's true.
Weird. At the very least I thought you had thousands of contributors. I guess it's a good thing you're the one getting paid since apparently you're the only one who matters. Wild that you're so invested in AI when apparently it doesn't apparently do any of the work either.
Maybe you should stop jerking off on HN and get to fixing the 2k+ issues on the photoshop clone you "one-shotted" a month ago. Maybe update the prompt to say "pretty please don't make any mistakes."
The way your half-assed broken slop is taking attention away from actual, functional open source projects is a crime.
> Weird. At the very least I thought you had thousands of contributors.
We do, and they're awesome.
The paid app I built prior to the Craft apps got to millions in revenue off of my work. Although an anti-AI person like you would say that wasn't my work and that it the revenue just created itself.
> I guess it's a good thing you're the one getting paid since apparently you're the only one who matters.
We're going to build open source infrastructure and weights, and we'll need to earn money to subsidize the build out.
> Wild that you're so invested in AI when apparently it doesn't apparently do any of the work either.
I'm working harder than I've ever worked in my life. You anti-AI people don't understand this because you don't try.
> The way your half-assed broken slop is taking attention away from actual, functional open source projects is a crime.
We are open source, and we're working on adapting open source to the software factory era.
Software factories are the future, and engineers steer the factories.
I am criticizing you, and I'm far from the only person doing so.
If your ego can't allow you to see a difference between the two - and your comments suggest it can't - that isn't my problem.
>We do, and they're awesome.
Cool. So you admit you didn't personally, entirely, as a "solo engineer" do it all. That at least is something.
>Although an anti-AI person like you would say that wasn't my work and that it the revenue just created itself.
OK so we're just arguing with strawmen now I guess. Fair enough, it's my fault for engaging. I should know what I'm getting into.
>We're going to build open source infrastructure and weights, and we'll need to earn money to subsidize the build out.
But open source doesn't need that. Gimp doesn't need millions of dollars in investment to subsidize infrastructure. Neither does Krita.
You do because you've created a "software factory" that requires the expense of burning tokens, which of course most open source projects can't afford.
It doesn't seem like you're building open source, it seems like you're building a moat.
>I'm working harder than I've ever worked in my life. You anti-AI people don't understand this because you don't try.
Brother everything you do - or rather everything your AI does and that you take credit for - is built on our work. The work that you mock, deride, and gleefully try to undermine while bragging about the money you make doing so.
At some point the hype is going to die and people are going to judge your products on their actual stability functionality. So far everyone who reviews them at the very least finds them fundamentally broken, and there is no professional adoption of any significance, at least not outside of the AI sphere.
The arrogance is astounding coming from someone whose photoshop clone can't even open a photoshop file.
I want to bend the universe. Maybe that's the difference.
Living the same way we did in the 2010s until retirement seems boring as hell. That was the depressing reality. This is way more fun.
I learned programming to do this stuff. Programming was the necessary evil. Now it's gone and I'm 1000x faster.
I want to live a life that makes the people I love happy, makes me feel healthy and happy, and hopefully learn some cool things and skills along the way.
Bending the universe sounds predatory, like exerting what you want onto other people without thinking about what they want
I'm starting to hate hacker news. You're all bleak and depressed angry people.
Excel was inevitable. How many trillions of hours has it saved?
AI is going to let me do your job and barely lift a finger. Therefore, inevitable.
These are thermodynamically favored technological outcomes.