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The thing is one could argue most of the improvements were regressions to previous paradigms. Windows 10 was improved by being less like Windows 8 and more like the classic desktops of the 90s.

In other words, change for the sake of change does not an improvement make.

Rather, 2 terms (8 years).

> I wonder how long it'll take people like you breathlessly chanting "this is the future!" before the slop bots hoover that up into their training data like narcissistic poison

This is a real risk. The copyright washing machine is an average of our collective "spoken consciousness", and in turn it influences the way we express ourselves, then it ends up inside the next training slopdate. Real organic human reasoning will eventually be as valuable as low-alpha steel was for a long time, at least till the background levels drop. AI businesses are raiding libraries for "sunken knowledge", the similarity is uncanny.

> We call it "Netflix sentence" here.

It could be argued that the Netflix catalog nowadays is akin to some kind of torture.

I know that yc by virtue of being a startup incubator has a noticeable pro-AI bias, and this naturally influences hn as well.

That said, there's definitely some influence, and not only on development. Teams are shrinking not only due to the economy, there's a real pressure to deliver more with less, and AI has raised expectations all around.

- (hw) Hardware issues can be debugged and worked around by an amateur (like yours truly) at home, meaning you no longed need to pay to fix lots of things yourself;

- (dev) refactoring and rewrites are not as expensive as before, meaning no need for dedicated teams and processes, and _some_ businesses (not all) chose to turn that into budget optimization ("doing the same work with less team", instead of "doing more work with the same team")

- (media) you can generate a decent 1 minute SaaS landing page product video for 20 bucks and and openRouter key, meaning less need to rely on or shop for specialized marketing/media service.

And the list just goes on an on. We're in the big pressure cooker of history as usual, but this is one of those occasions where the temperature is rising really fast due to AI and the further commoditization of a lot of workflows that were career specialties yesterday.

Edit: a killed post below mentions interviews now valuing system design knowledge (like tradeoffs, cost etc) instead of rote memorization (since the need for encyclopedic knowledge arguably hit an all time low). This shows the change in the median profile businesses and recruiting staff are after, certainly influenced by AI.

When you think about it, who's to say they did not?

This is not a comment on gullibility or the like, but yeah, the agenda is _incredibly_ transparent for any non-USian, to the point that following discussions about russian/chinese/$INSERT_COUNTRY_HERE propaganda is always funny.

> And add jail time to fines. Fines means nothing for the rich.

This, pretty much. Money removes consequence form your actions. If every time you screwed up, instead of being fined you had to wear a silly hat, go on TV and apologize, or get some time behind bars, even if it were 1 or 2 days it would be very effective.

This is the part managerial and marketing types don't understand. Their expectation is usually that "since its a computer system (sic) the tech team will support it from now on".

> Violence is not the answer

Sometimes it is the question. "Yes" is the answer.