Got any examples you can share?
Is your pay scaling in a similar manner? Or have you just raised the floor for what's expected of you?
did you generate 10x more income in the time AI changed your life? What is the projection you are doing?
I speak to people who work at the upper echelons across various industries regularly and whether you want to believe it or not idc - the management are desperately trying to push AI but it just doesn’t add much value to what they do. At best it’s just a really good search engine across internal data. Many of these places already had things called macros in place so there’s barely any value add.
Funny, I see HN as having a high concentration of anti-AI comments and general AI doubt. Yours included.
The vibe among less technical people I talk to has a negative sentiment about AI and AI companies, but largely because they see AI as more effective and capable. They think it’s coming for their job and way of life and they don’t like that.
If AI is coming for people’s jobs and it’s more effective, the management of firms across multiple industries should reflect that by firing lots of people right now. Why wait? Collect the extra cash flows today given future expectations of technological progress. Who says no to more money? Lmfao.
Or… perhaps they don’t quite stand all that much behind that claim.
Moreover ‘less technical’ means what exactly? I referenced people who are senior managers who are trying to wedge AI where they can. Who are you referencing?
"It’s worth taking a moment to really watch how [AIs] work, as they are working on some relatively lengthy task for you. It reminds me of bumper bowling [1]; link to a short video showing what it is. The AIs bang along all our bumpers; failing compiles, failing tests, failing integrations, error messages, all the bumpers we’ve built into our engineering process, and in the end they get a good result. But that good result is as much a result of all the solid engineering processes we have installed as anything else, because the AI without those protections rolls into the gutter relatively quickly. In those fields where the bumpers can’t be built as easily or in as great a quantity as we can have them, that’s what happens with the AIs.
"... it’s not that “programmers are awesome”, it’s that our domain is amenable to having all these bumpers in the first place."
I can think of bumpers for other domains, but not in the quantity we have in our space. Plus there's things like accounting, where "accounting" already is the bumper, having an AI banging into the accounting bumpers is much more concerning than a syntax error on compile is for us. Coding AIs would be nearly useless if the bumpers weren't there, and I think that's where a lot of other domains end up with when it comes to AI.
If you want to see what I mean, watch a longer coding process in your AI, notice the first place it bangs into one of the bumpers I'm talking about, and then imagine how valuable the AI would be if instead it didn't realize that it banged into a bumper, continued on obliviously, and then went off into ever-more-fantastic flights of fancy with no connection to reality. Such an AI would be too hazardous to use. I think that's the experience of almost every other field right now.
Well... except that it actually hasn't. A handful of people are saying "yeah we're getting huge gains, it's unreal". But most devs here talk about how it's at best a modest speedup, and at worst slows them down. So even for programming, the thing they are supposedly good at, LLMs aren't actually that good.
Although they know perfectly well what happened to their search / personal data, but they still don't want to see the obvious
Even within SV there are still luddites who sometimes type out code, in mid 2026!!!
>Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them
They are.
There's a lot of overlap between people who cannot stand the AI boosters, don't want a data center built anywhere near them, are sick of the slop, and still use a chatbot for some stuff.
I don't think this is hypocrisy. I don't think it's a contradiction at all.
It suggests that people actually like natural language interfaces where they make sense and the price is reasonable. What they don't like is the rhetoric, behavior, impact on electricity prices, insistence on cramming it into places where it doesn't belong, layoffs, threats, and general obnoxiousness of the people pushing it and their general milieu.
Which makes perfect sense.
Both of those things did transform life & culture but mostly to the benefit of their makers. People now expect the same from AI and for better or worse most of the CEOs are not even pretending this time. The most they do is some vague hope that it'll all workout magically somehow.
Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI.
It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought.
Business is also noticing that the ROI simply isn’t there and a lot written about this. That doesn’t bode well for AI providers that need to massively increase prices to make the math work on their business models.
The world inside of the AI bubble seems largely ignorant of the mood shift underway, which suggests interesting times are ahead.