One of my guilty pleasure was, from time to time, to go to hacker news and read random heavily upvoted links.
Those are always easy read, sometimes interesting, sometimes not.
A couple of weeks ago, I did it but nearly all links where about "how I use LLMs to be more productive". The word "Claude" was 17 times on the front page. I could not find one single link I wanted to follow. They were all the same emptyness non-sense.
I was so disgusted, I’ve never visited HN again since that day.
@ploum Yes, it's fallen off a cliff.
@ploum for quite a while now, I've used https://hcker.news to access HN. Many useful little features, among which a "AI" filter, veeery useful.
It does not fix the underlying content problem but at least we can browse HN without being pestered by all the AI-related content.
@ploum
There could be something going on that ends with "*turf".
@ploum It's insane how bad it's gotten over the course of the last few months. You also see a huge amount of accounts that are very obviously run by AI agents in almost every thread, often drowning out any real discussion.
I've almost completely abandoned ship for lobste.rs, which suffers from the same tedious AI discussion being rehashed ad nauseum, but you can at least filter it out, and the participants still seem mostly like human beings.
@ploum Biggest victim so far of AI is arguably online discussion, especially programming discussion. It's a real double whammy where on the one hand you have the bots butting in with non-sequitur insights, but it seems like anyone who drinks the AI Kool-Aid completely loses the ability to have interesting ideas or build interesting projects, likely because those things come as a result of the work that the LLM is now doing. I've said it before, but AI above anything else makes you boring.
MC Pablo ∴ @ploum Yup. It's more and more rare to have good content on HN because of the AI mania. It's still there, sometimes. But for almost two years now I'm back to spending more time on Reddit than HN, after maybe like 10 years of this opposite.
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@ploum I had a drink with a chef tonight and he told me Claude helped to translate his recipes in three languages, and to do technical notes for his recipes.
I said ok ... I dont have the energy to fight with them anymore 
