How Are You Finding the AI in Everything Moment We Are Living Through

[Dom_8]

It is difficult to read the news, use a product, or have a conversation without AI coming up. The Fable shutdown, the AI stock market story, AI songs on the radio, AI coding tools getting compromised by malware, AI benchmarks, AI IPOs. It is everywhere and it is relentless.

For people who find technology interesting there is presumably genuine excitement mixed with exhaustion. For people who did not sign up to think about AI constantly, it must feel like the world changed without asking permission.

How are you actually finding it? Exciting, exhausting, both, or have you just tuned it out?

[WearyCoder]

Genuinely both. There are days when following this stuff feels like living through something historic. There are other days when I just want to go for a walk and not think about which model is better at coding

[EdgeRatedR]

I find the pace destabilising in a way I am only just starting to name. Not any single development overwhelming but the cumulative effect of nothing settling long enough to understand

[Hitman99]

I work adjacent to this industry and even I struggle to keep up. The gap between people who follow this daily and people who have heard of ChatGPT and nothing else is enormous and growing

[BankHolidayBlues]

I have started being more selective. I follow quantum and AI because I find it genuinely interesting, but stopped trying to track every model release. The signal to noise ratio has collapsed

[Dean95]

The most interesting social effect is how it has changed conversation. Five years ago explaining what a large language model was took twenty minutes. Now everyone has a strong opinion about AI

[Mike]

I think people's reaction roughly tracks their economic relationship to it. If AI is making your work better you feel differently than if it is replacing something you were good at

[Wendy5]

The thing I find hardest is the way the pace makes it difficult to have considered opinions. By the time you have thought carefully about something it has already changed three times