Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft

So I wouldn't mind to lose my job for almost any other reason. Bad market, company pivot, even my own stupid mistakes... fine, thats life. But losing it because of the love I put in my open source projects? C'mon man, that one really pisses me off. I had side projects on weekends just for fun like everyone else, stack overflow answers at 2am for strangers I never gonna meet, and repos nobody paid me for..

Honestly that kinda of culture was the best thing about being a dev and now it became the training set. I hate how openai/google/anthropic/etc scraped it all, learned from it, and now they sell our love back to us as a product. Sure, I get it, it's capitalism, whatever, but I feel like the biggest fool out there. I guess I just have to accept it, put my head down and keep going. There's one thing I dislike most though: the people around here that glorify AI/LLMs. It's just a matter of time until the higher ups normalize reducing even more headcount because of AI, 90% of us will be affected. Not everything is about the technical details people!

12 points | by dakiol 12 hours ago

5 comments

  • nicbou 1 hour ago
    Same here, but with free information. I trained the Google AI overviews that are killing my website and the internet in general.

    I sometimes wake up so angry about it, but what can we do?

  • manojpathak 5 hours ago
    :-) same thing happened when computer arrived and don't know why this quote stayed with me.

    "Either you're part of the steamroller or you're part of the road."

    If not AI then something else would have been there to disrupt.

    Cheers

  • warren455 36 minutes ago
    Just like in the Age of Electricity, the Age of Steam, and the Internet Age, there will always be people like you who complain.
  • moomoo11 56 minutes ago
    Things ebb and flow don’t be so attached
  • colesantiago 9 hours ago
    I am curious like, what are we going to do about it?

    How do we stop them?

    We can make an open letter to the AI labs and the employees (they can be anonymous confirmed signatories of course) so that they can reconsider their business models.

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    • BrunoBernardino 1 hour ago
      I think the only _real_ power we have, as consumers (not employees) is to not use or pay for such tools/services. If you can, pay for tools/services that value the opposite. That's what I do, at least.