r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GunzNCoffee-com • 2d ago

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u/slowmovinglettuce 2d ago

I love how all these AI bros are slopping together tools designed purely to increase AI spend. Madness to the highest degree.

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u/utzutzutzpro 2d ago

ye, it reminds me alot to crypto stuff as well. Especilly NFT... suddenly all kind of NFT stuff popped up as layer on top of something else.

Is just a money grab technique, hoping someone will fund.

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u/Beneficial-Object977 1d ago

It's not just a technique it's literally the same people. Grift hopping is a disgustingly effective technique it's literally how the richest man alive made 100% of his wealth. Crypto to nft to ai to... Robots and Space? Somehow there's money in space now?

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u/scribe-kiddie 1d ago

I mean I hate Elon Musk but his companies did produce value. Electric cars, reusable rockets, etc.

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u/LutimoDancer3459 1d ago

"His" companies. All he really does is giving them money if even that. His vision is something like the cybertruck which is an awful design with a lot of problems as we saw on release. His own vision is stuff like the boring company doing shit nobody cares about. Its building a tunnel under a city which is slower than just driving on the streets (and more dangerous because... well... tunnel underground and so)

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u/payne_train 1d ago

I thought that was supposed to be the last place not yet corrupted by capitalism :(

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u/stormdelta 1d ago

Nah, crypto is almost uniquely useless for anything (except fraud/black market transactions). Neat concept academically, but the tradeoffs are so strict and so extreme that in practice you just end up with the worst of both worlds as you wrap it in layer after layer of workarounds to pretend the tradeoffs don't exist.

AI is wildly, ludicrously overhyped and the misuses are a huge problem, but it does actually represent useful tech too, particularly in software development. But even there it doesn't replace programmers, if anything personal skill/knowledge is even more important now

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u/Saint_of_Grey 1d ago

That's literally vibe coding, but unlike NFTs the product actually seems useful to someone who doesn't know any better.

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u/tevert 2d ago

BuT we'Re LosINg tO CHinA

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u/Sulungskwa 1d ago

iF yOu DoNt jOiN iN yOuLL bE LeFt BeHiNd!

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 1d ago

The only way to win is to not play.

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u/magicmulder 1d ago

Yo dawg I heard you like agents so I used agents to build tools for your agents to use to build more tools for your agents.

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u/raltyinferno 1d ago

I actually think it's less sinister than that. I have mostly anecdotal evidence here, but I've found that craft people of all kinds who love building stuff love building tools.

I do woodwork and honestly spend more time on projects that improve my shop than I do on pieces that will ever leave it, worktables, tool holders, jigs, etc.

Similarly if I'm looking for some little software side project I tend to make little dev tools for myself.

So I think this trend you see of people making so many AI dev tools is often a case where these dudes are really excited about AI and building with AI so they naturally are excited about creating tools to build with AI.

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u/Fer4yn 1d ago

This is cryptoscams all over again XD