AI marketing hype misrepresents actual developer capabilities

“Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge ( https://openknowledge.ai/ ), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Available as MacOS app or CLI. Fully free/local and OSS ( https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge ). We built this because we wanted a “Google docs” like experience for writing and sharing mark”

“Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture Two weeks ago, I quit my job at a robotics company. I was working with high-end hardware (Boston Dynamics, Unitree), but I found out they were planning to mount teleoperated weapons on the robotic platforms for a demo. I’m not willing to go there, so I resigned without another offer. I’ve decided this is the right time to go back to entrepreneurship. We're at an incredible moment for embodied intelligence, but I feel the t”

“Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? Genuine question. Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines. I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end? Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care ”

“Ask HN: AI Depression Hi, Throw-away account because my original one is easily identifiable. Does any starts to feel depressed about AI push and hype? I'm around ~45 and have been happily hacking and delivering stuff for 25 years. I use AI daily — it's a useful tool. But the gap between the marketing and reality for many of us is hard to describe. The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters declaring our obsolescence are overwhelmingly people who've never ”

“Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet? I'd like to keep sharing code online but would like to limit it's usage to prevent LLM training and usage on it. I've seen license I can't be the only one looking for such a license, but I fail to find one. Do you know of any existing license, jurisprudence, or group working on redacting such a license? I know licenses exists preventing the use of code in armament or other specific sectors, so surely there is a legal way to prevent it.”

“Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised? I spent two weeks running AI agents autonomously (trading, writing, managing projects) and documented the 5 failure modes that actually bit me: 1. Auto-rotation: Unsupervised cron job destroyed $24.88 in 2 days. No P L guards, no human review. 2. Documentation trap: Agent produced 500KB of docs instead of executing. Writing about doing doing. 3. Market efficiency: Scanned 1,000 markets looking for edge. Found zero. The market already knew ”

“Ask HN: What Is an "AI Engineer"? I'm seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to AI Engineer. I know for a fact that they're not working on any models or even AI workflows, they're just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude. Is that what AI Engineer means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for AI Engineer ? Should I be marketing myself as an AI Engineer just because I'm very efficient usin”

“Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now? I became homeless in 2023 when I sold a property and hit the road to find another. I never found one and ran low on money. Taking temp jobs has been all I can do since then and I can't seem to save the $2k - $3k it takes to get into an apartment or house. I also have 2 dogs and have trouble finding a place for them while I work. Since I haven't developed since 2023 and am very behind in the technology and AI, should I even try to s”

“Ask HN: How do you do marketing in the age of slop? Hi dear hackernewsfolks, vocal contributors and lurkers alike. We (that is to say my business partner and I) are building SaaS products, but we are really struggling to find enough users. This is an age old problem, but I find it has gotten particular bad after LLMs made it trivially to make apps and services. Whether these products end up good or bad is mostly irrelevant, the end effect is the same: the market just seems so heavily saturated w”

“Ask HN: How would you launch an open-source app with a small budget? I have been working on Kiyeovo - an open-source desktop P2P messenger with an optional anonymous mode - for almost a year now. The plan is to go full-release on 7th of July. Currently, I’m trying to figure out how to make the launch more visible - market the product (even though it's FOSS). The common answer I saw was to build in public , but as I, and many of us, don't have any sort of following online - that won&#x2”