GenshoTikamura

Stay strong. Someday we'll all meet at the opposite riverside, as in Fahrenheit 451.

Here, for heck's and history's sake, I'm replying to exactly a 1/2 of all HN laughingstock.

Keep it up. There'll be some rough turbulence until this transhumanist trainwreck dust settles. The human spirit shall prevail.

> I get up in the morning to make things, not to watch others make things.

If you ever followed down the rabbit hole of children content on YouTube, the one that infants and toddlers end up after an hour of autoplay with some innocent cartoon at the beginning, you'd find among the piles of morbid psychotic trash a variety of videos of children watching someone else playing some games, a whole class of videos in itself.

I can't explain this with anything else but a coordinated effort to flash the norm of watching someone/something doing something as opposed to being engaged in immediate action yourself into the firmware of future people. This lines up with many other current trends pretty well. Talk about incrementing Baudrillard's level of simulation a notch up.

> a playable web game of classic frogger

You could create a Tetris in even less time. Try to create something more novel and less hot on the heatmap of paths walked in gamedev.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

There is room to move up the developer hierarchy at the company I work for, but I refuse to take that path for this very reason. The leadership has bought into AI as some kind of panacea, plus the company's plans to replace hundreds of human administrators in our B2C operations with AI strike me as downright evil.

Quiet doesn't bring your AI corporation profits up.

So, programmers once had an edge in having their source closed, then fell for the open source evangelism and started sharing their code, which enabled the training of AI models, and now the next iteration of what was called programmers before and is now known as vibe coders has this notion of having an edge in having their chatbot prompts closed again?

Let's all just muse some and imagine what the next cycle of this wheel will look like.