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Re:How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator by ashwindharne on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:45AM (#45427000)
HN's AI hate-boner has always been a bit off-putting to me. This is a technology forum, and it's pretty much the biggest advance in recent technology that has potential implications for all of our lives. I definitely also get AI-fatigue, but it's no mystery why there's a preponderance of content about LLMs, diffusion models, self-driving cars, etc.

YC's goals are to manage risk and to make money, and new tech like this is almost certain to make someone a lot of money. All these YC companies are just different random initializations of potential ways that this new generation of AI can affect the world. It's a given that most startups of this breed will fizzle out with no impact, but I imagine that a few of them will actually change how something is done (and make a lot of money in the meantime).

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Re:How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator by biophysboy on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:55AM (#45427135)
The hate boner comes from HN's love for technology - software and hardware - and AI is so dominant in tech news. Once you learn the basics of LLMs and agents, which are really not that complicated, it gets sort of dull to hear about again and again and again.
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Re:How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator by alephnerd on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:46AM (#45427013)
To paraphrase Vinay Hiremath (Loom YC W12), HN is filled with salty burnt out losers [0]

HN hasn't been representative of the startup or innovation scene for a long time, and the noise to signal ratio has degraded.

[0] - https://x.com/vhmth/status/1299804911224250368

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Re:How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator by Terr_ on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:55PM (#45428816)
Off-putting? I think skepticism over marketing-hype from workers in a field is how things are supposed to work, especially for a group that spends lots of time plotting things out looking for edge-cases and ways for it to fail.

I'd be far more disturbed by the opposite, where everybody on HN is expected to gush over the thing-du-jour.

As aptly-put for a prior hype-cycle:

> Tech Enthusiasts: "Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!"

> Programmers/Engineers: "The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."

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Re:How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator by insane_dreamer on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:16PM (#45429115)
It’s because this is a tech forum that we actually put our thinking caps on rather than just accept whatever BS comes out in corporate press releases.
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