I get excited for the things I built. I built them for my clients and I love that clients are genuinely happy with what I built for them. And then I send an invoice which is followed by a payment. I love that too, I love both.
I dont't love doing some obscure integration of an API that should have been dead years ago but somehow still lives. I don't like squishing bugs because something doesn't work when the Sun is in the third house of Uranus on February 31st. Those are technical problems I don't like solving.
My point is that you and I both love something else and that is totally fine. But I'm not sure if you can keep making money with only solving technical problems.
And very important: there's no dark algorithm that shows a different view each time you go back to HN. It is sometimes boring but the good kind of boring.
But LinkedIn has become one of the worst kinds of social media. I mean, it's full of AI grifters, people starting posts with 'I wasn't going to post this but [continues with a dumb post]' and lately even a lot of obituaries. Everybody on LinekdIn is either "very successful" or has learned a lesson by some fck up that didn't even happen. I just saw a post of a guy who pretends to be successful, rents a Porsche and then post a photo of sitting inside the rental with the caption 'Fck the haters'. Yeah, all that on the professional networking internet website called LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a shitshow.
Yea exactly. That's why I allow it. Because apart from the obvious networking benefit and a few sane people I follow who post good stuff every now and then, I basically don't doom-scroll it. So the utility at that point crosses whatever 5-10 minutes of cringe AI slop I quickly scroll past.
It almost feels like AI is a hype and is used by the NFT/blockchain/crypto/web3 grifters as yet another vehicle to grift people right into their graves. Fun times.
Always? Maybe for the past 15-20 years but for the 50 years before that there wasn't much investment or interest from executives. AI was mostly about research and niche applications.
AI has always been a marketing term. As soon as it has a useful application it is named around its utility. Search, recognition, generation, classification, etc. AI is the term you use when you can't easily describe what you're doing.
It's true that in the early years, much of the investment was public money—but the above still stands.
This is true and is the reason I personally have always hated the term. This time around things are different. This time we also hate the technology.
Personally I used to love Markov Chains, Kalman filters, Supervised learning, etc. and resent the fact that people called it AI. But LLM has nothing but hate from my heart. Ironically, I love that people call it AI, and do so enthusiastically my self. A bad and hyped up technology deserves a bad and hyped up name.
In the few minutes I had with it I didn’t notice any impressive differences beyond it complaining loudly that I can’t talk about excel cells with “yellow backgrounds”.
I dont't love doing some obscure integration of an API that should have been dead years ago but somehow still lives. I don't like squishing bugs because something doesn't work when the Sun is in the third house of Uranus on February 31st. Those are technical problems I don't like solving.
My point is that you and I both love something else and that is totally fine. But I'm not sure if you can keep making money with only solving technical problems.