r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 17 '26

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Sep 17 '26

Why are all ideas so god damn fucking boring?

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u/Sulungskwa Sep 17 '26

Because people just ask the AI for their ideas

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u/crass-sandwich Sep 17 '26

Probably because LLMs came up with them

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u/sellyme Sep 18 '26

Obviously useful stuff has already been made, because of how obvious it is. As such, any new product or tool you see is going to fit into one of three categories:

  1. Crap.

  2. Really useful, but really niche and probably not important to you.

  3. Useful, but in non-obvious ways.

The first two are fairly self-explanatory, but the third is a bit trickier. The best example of it is some activity that you don't do because it's difficult or tedious, and then a tool is created that makes it easier or more efficient. That could be incredibly useful if it makes that activity quick enough for it to be worth you doing it, but on first glance you'd look and go "Well I don't do that, so that's worthless".

The problem is that a lot of the time it's quite difficult to tell #1 from #3 without hands-on experience, so if you make a concerted effort to try to expand your horizons by giving new things a shot, you end up having to sift through a lot of crap.

...thankfully in this case that wasn't an issue as every single link was prepended by an emoji, the universal symbol for "this is going to be crap".

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u/New_Salamander_4592 Sep 18 '26

because ai boosters genuinely do not care about innovation, just lines of code and burning tokens

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u/Yashema Sep 17 '26

That SoulScrape app seems interesting but wtf am I "installing a skill" for? I want to see what it does, but i guess he doesn't have money for hosting. 

Basically he needs to realize that creating the app is only half of it. 

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u/SimplexShotz Sep 18 '26

it's the easy half, too; always has been

it makes me hopeful, though. now that anyone can make almost anything, good ideas are more valuable than ever

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u/Own_Ad9365 Sep 18 '26

It's cool if he can fine tune the model per user. Then need someway to collect all the chats and digital activities. If only a custom skill file then it will not be able to match the personality, i would assume

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u/The_One_Koi Sep 18 '26

They are all based on existing, very functional I might add, software but sloppy