> you can't see that you're an Ouroboros consuming your own tail and they can

Hey, so if I DO see it, can I stop it from happening?

OK. Well, I've been doing this the hard way for about twenty years, and now with AI in the mix my little solo SaaS has gone from nothing to $5k MRR in six weeks. Guess I'm not holding it completely wrong?

You are making assumptions about someone you have never talked to in the past, and don't know anything about.

Of the two of you, I know which one I'd bet on being "right". (Hint: It's the one talking about their own experience, not the one supplanting theirs onto someone else)

What assumptions am I making? Aren't you making assumptions about what I'm saying? It appears your assumptions are extremely egregious because they're blatantly and even comically hypocritical.

To that poster:

Literally everyone in development is using AI.

The difference is "negative" people can clearly see that it's on a trajectory in the NEAR, not even distant, future to completely eat your earnings, so they're not thrilled.

You're in the forest and you're going "Wow, look at all these trees! Cool!"

The hubris is thinking that you're a permanent indispensable part of the loop.

> The difference is "negative" people can clearly see that it's on a trajectory in the NEAR, not even distant, future to completely eat your earnings, so they're not thrilled.

We birthed a level of cognition out of silicon that nobody would imagine even just four years ago. Sorry, but some brogrammers being worried about making ends meet is making me laugh - it's all the same people who have been automating everyone else's jobs for the past two decades (and getting paid extremely fat salaries for it), and you're telling me now we're all supposed to be worried because it's going to affect our salaries?

Come on. You think everyone who's "vibe coding" doesn't understand the pointlessness of 90% of codemonkey work? Hell, most smart engineers understood that pointlessness years ago. Most coders work on boring CRUD apps and REST APIs to make revenue go up 0.02%. And those that aren't, are probably working on ads.

It's a fraction of a fraction that is at all working on interesting things.

Personally, yeah, I saw it coming and instead of "accepting fate", I created an AI research lab. And I diversified the hell out of my skillset as well - started working way out of my comfort zone. If you want to keep up with changing times, start challenging.

We are reading very different "negative" comments here.

Most of the anti-AI comments I see on HN are NOT a version of "the problem with AI is that it's so good it's going to replace me!"

> Literally everyone in development is using AI.

That's just... not true? There are many, many people who sincerely believe (sometimes from real experience, sometimes because they want it to be true) that AI absolutely cannot do whatever they are trying to do, and so they don't use it.

What is "flamebait"? Unpopular beliefs I genuinely hold? I looked it up and the definition seems to include being disingenuous, which I am not. Claiming I am is annoying and feels like it is a personal attack.

It doesn't include being disingenuous. We can't know what your intent is (<-- I don't mean you personally, but any commenter, of course), and can only moderate based on effects, not intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Thanks