AI makes you boring

5 days ago

AI-aided development is seen as a tool, but AI-generated Show HN projects are often considered boring and lacking depth.
Pre-AI Show HN projects allowed for discussions with people who had deeply thought about problems, offering unique perspectives.
AI attracts individuals with unoriginal projects, leading to less interesting programming discussions overall.
AI models are poor at original thinking, resulting in shallow ideas when offloading thought processes to them.
Human oversight doesn't improve AI originality; instead, it risks making human thought resemble AI output.
Original ideas come from deep immersion in problems, which AI shortcuts prevent by offering quick, surface-level solutions.
Articulating ideas (e.g., writing essays or teaching) refines them, but prompting AI doesn't contribute to meaningful ideation.
Using AI for thinking is likened to using an excavator to lift weights—it doesn't build intellectual 'muscle.'

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