I barely see a single post like this.

Maybe Lemmy.org is federated with some different folks, but where are you seeing them? From here, it even seems super rare even in places you might expect, like self-hosted or the dbz0 tech circles.

Wouldn't the simplest explanation be that your assumption was wrong?

We are not to be spared the buzz marketing.

They don't know what automation is and think its ai.

I've seen quite a few ai products that are just if/then statements ducktaped together that say they have "ai".

Just because AI is bad in majority of situations, doesn't mean it's bad in all situations.

I've been middle of the road in AI for years. I think it's fascinating. I love it as a toy. But LLMs have a lot if limitations and they can't be overcome through more compute or better training—mitigated but not overcome.

But man I've seen AI do some shit lately. Claude 4.5, Cline and an imagination can get shit done. Not "sell this to customers" shit but definitely "I know what I'm doing but I have an afternoon, not weeks — I've got you, bro" shit.

Definitely, "I've looked through this code and I want you to analyze it and tell me what you find so I can compare notes in case I've missed something."

Last night I had it tell me "I'm a little confused about this point. I thought I understood it, but maybe not. Can you go over it again?" What the actual fuck? Anthropic has taken this shit way further than I thought possible.

So then I explained it and it builds a whole thing. It needed tweaking. Whole thing was like $10 in API costs. But it saved me so much time and my position pays enough that saving me 10 hours of time makes that a steal.

The AI didn't do it in its own, for sure, but it saved me way more time than I thought it could. You're still fucked if you don't know how to do the thing, but I'm impressed.

Baseline for what hobbyists are going to be able to accomplish is going way up in the future.

Can I ask ai this question to get an answer?