smartmic

> every day the front page is filled with mostly LLM-related announcements.

I agree, that HN has mostly lost its spirit and soul and feels more like a AI-announcement bot.

> Whilst I appreciate the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity as we know it

I disagree, that the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity are for our common good. I think its the other way around.

Do you have any insights or technical details about their implementation?

I am in an enterprise which experiments with ontologies and knowledge graphs since its hype heydays ca. 15 years ago. It never took off, good ol’ relational databases and its modern day implementations in the cloud still rule the data landscape. Many smart consultants tried their best and we spend many millions over time into it. I would love to read more success stories, but they seem to be rare beyond academic exercises.

That’s good. I wonder how much longer it will take for countries to make their energy supply dependent on fossil fuels or nuclear power, thereby becoming pawns of unpredictable or hostile regimes and being helplessly at the mercy of geopolitics. It’s so baffling that many countries, even those with plenty of sun and wind, still prefer to rely on fossil fuels rather than make life a little easier for future generations.

And no, there will be better solutions for base load as well. Battery storage, for example. Sure, it’s a transformation, but those who refuse to think for the future can see the consequences of stubbornness and backward-looking attitudes today.

Short: no more leap seconds

There is a spectrum between using AI as tool and for automation. As humans are lazy, they always go more for the automation end if it accessible. And the human skill at stakes is brain capability. So yes, I agree: AI looks like an apocalypse for human thinking.

I wonder what is the value of such vibe coded programs. It can't be the implementation or engineering aspect at all, when generated by AI. Is it the idea? Should it be a tribute to Craig Reynolds in this case?