Literally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...
replyOr Mr Krabs' fear of robot overloads keeping technology at bay in the Krusty Krab!
replywho is the Starbuck of AI?
replyplot twist: it's Starbuck
yes, I was never so happy to work in Germany. People used to joke about the proverbial fax machine still being a thing but I've never been so glad to work in a culture where this mania doesn't exist. Reading HN is like entering Alice's Wonderland of token maxxers and AI psychotics. Genuinely don't know a single person here who is forced to work like this.
replyActually, I have been wondering to which extend the AI craze has reached the DACH region. I don't work for any company and neither do my friends. HN is essentially my only peephole into the world of commercial software development and I'm aware that it's extremely biased towards Big Tech and SV startup culture.
replyAh so it's like 2000 again. Germany will go even farther behind it seems
replyGermany is standing at the abyss. America is one step ahead.
replythis is social media induced psychosis my friend
replyIf the people that walk before you go into the abyss, staying behind isn't wrong.
replySpoiler: it's not
replyRisk aversion is a tradeoff, not always a weakness.
replyThe people using the LLMs are the risk, not the LLMs themselves
replyFrankly, if you think this, why do you think you're special? If people using LLMs are bad, how are you not also subject to the same issues they are?
replyIt is absolutely going to be a competitive advantage if it isn't already. When your competitors' products suck because they are using LLMs to write them, and yours work because you aren't, customers notice.
replyThat assumes there's no way to use LLMs in a productive manner
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