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'Ask HN: Does Anyone Else Feel Like Nothing Matters Anymore?' Reaches 203 Points — a Founder Replies That He Shut His Startup Down
An overnight Ask HN framing AI as enabling cheat codes in a game ('sure you can do anything, but everything is meaningless now') drew 203 points and 131 comments in hours. rogerkirkness replied that he closed his startup over exactly this feeling and is looking for work that isn't computer-dependent; bm3719 named a second-order effect nobody had listed — AI has crowded out all other discussion, so conversations about languages, protocols, and architecture no longer happen because participants suspect they no longer matter. The dissenting thread from kranner splits it on motivation: intrinsically motivated builders report AI as an accelerant, extrinsically motivated ones as a nullifier.
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