Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by freecodeio on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:26PM (#50486700)

Something that bothers me with hn is that despite the amazing shit we see with AI, a big chunk of it has somehow decided that the corpo bloodsuckers are also amazing and should be protected at all costs. I wish we could have more nuanced conversations, considering the majority here think of themselves as some sort of high iq individuals.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by eldaisfish on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:43PM (#50487008)

Many here are overconfident. They believe that expertise in one area means expertise in all areas.

Just browse any thread about renewable energy where the tech bro crowd believes that every challenge is a “solved problem”.

Were that the case, private industry would be building data centres powered by nothing but wind and solar energy. Yet, the preferred power solutions still appear to be the power grid or skirting emissions regulations via gas turbines.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by shevy-java on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:10PM (#50487416)

What exactly is amazing with AI?

It made me sad how it destroyed so much cohesion and eliminated people's jobs. I don't find that amazing. It is killing people literally now. Not everyone will be able to find a new job.

Just look at this guy - he retired mostly due to AI taken over ruby, as one example of many more:

https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-...

And that's about a month ago only, aka quite recently.

AI changed everything. Mostly for the bad. In a few use cases one can say that AI led to interesting changes, e. g. discovering bugs in projects (assuming here these are real discovers about real bugs, but quite many were real bugs indeed). This led to the death of all bug bounty programs. It makes no sense to pay humans when computers can do the same in a better way.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by dogleash on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:24PM (#50487625)

It's idolization from people who think they're smarter than idolizing. I remember when techies got all hot and horny for Steve Jobs and (pre-twitter) Elon. It's exactly like trying to discuss music with stans.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by bigfatkitten on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:21PM (#50489105)

A great number of posters here are pseudo-intellectuals who think that some expertise in developing CRUD web apps, which they consider to be a form of “engineering”, translates into expertise in all fields.

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Re:Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? He... by fwlr on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:30PM (#50489217)

Many commenters on HN see themselves as “temporarily embarrassed corpo bloodsuckers”.

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