If a discussion about GenAI adds something new to the discussion, I think it is great. But most of them do not. Most of them are either generic posts about whether or not someone likes it, stories of someone's experiences as they learn it, or fanfiction about where they want it to go in the future. Or, at the worst, links to simplistic wrapper apps someone is trying to market.

I would prefer that it lands in the same place as any other topic - if it is interesting, it gets traction, and if it is boring, it does not. But how to make that happen is a challenge.

I was thinking of making an alternative frontend to HN with GenAI stuff filtered out — using GenAI to do it, obviously (both build it and use it to filter things).

But mostly as a social experiment to test how fed up are people with AI-in-our-face ;)

This is what my sentiment is: there is genuinely useful stuff, but it really overwhelmes anything else and it's hard to find non-AI valuable stuff on the frontpage these days.

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