The Influentists: AI hype without proof

Re:The Influentists: AI hype without proof by deadbabe on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:47PM (#46624099)

“I used AI to make a super profitable stock trading bot” —-> using fake money with historical data

“I used AI to make an entire NES emulator in an afternoon!” —-> a project that has been done hundreds of times and posted all over github with plenty of references

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Re:The Influentists: AI hype without proof by Fazebooking on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:56PM (#46624239)

I vibe coded a few ideas i had in my mind for a while. My basic stack is html, single page, local storage and lightweight js.

It is really good in doing this.

those ideas are like UI experiments or small tools helping me doing stuff.

Its also super great in ELI5'ing anything

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Re:The Influentists: AI hype without proof by deadbabe on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:35PM (#46624814)

Same result if you copied and pasted from a couple passionate blogs.

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Re:The Influentists: AI hype without proof by Fazebooking on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:40AM (#46629824)

Not in the same timeframe. My experiments take an hour.

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Re:The Influentists: AI hype without proof by nottorp on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:06AM (#46631871)

> “I used AI to make a super profitable stock trading bot” —-> using fake money with historical data

Stocks are another matter. There were wonder "algorithms" even before "AI". I helped some friends tweak some. They had the enthusiasm and I had the programming expertise and I was curious.

That was a couple years ago. None of them is rich and retired now - which was what the test runs were showing - and I think most aren't even trading any more.

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