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Re:Why Does Everyone Hate AI? by donatj on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:42AM (#48673267)
At AIs absolute best (rarely) it builds software like a very competent 9-5er. It's fine, it works, it's largely inoffensive.

It never does anything interesting or inspired. It never gets halfway into building something and then questions the entire premise of your app. It's automated milquetoast.

Re:Why Does Everyone Hate AI? by aeve890 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:49AM (#48673371)
>At AIs absolute best (rarely) it builds software like a very competent 9-5er. It's fine, it works, it's largely inoffensive.

If only middle management and c-suite knew that

Re:Why Does Everyone Hate AI? by thrixton on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:27PM (#48693794)
Isn't that what they want?

It's only the craftsman that look up to the superstars / thought leaders, everyone else just wants inoffensive competency (and that's OK I guess).

Re:Why Does Everyone Hate AI? by andai on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:13AM (#48673732)
> It never does anything interesting or inspired.

I asked Sonnet to port an old game I wrote in college to HTML5.

It threw out the audio and graphics system, made it a single HTML file with no dependencies, no assets, everything dynamically generated, added new backgrounds, and new music.

I just asked it for a port, so I was like wtf, though some of the choices it made were better than the original ones.

Would be nice if that "initiative" could be turned on or off on demand though. I haven't tested that. (Some guy told me "if you want creativity, use Claude. To turn the behavior off, use a different model!")

Re:Why Does Everyone Hate AI? by andai on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:36PM (#48694891)
Why was this downvoted?