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• #20261031

  AI Summaries Kill Google Search: Users Flee Bad Results, Embrace Competition

  Google Search vs. AI-powered summaries (Gemini)
  • [bluesky]So I just went to use the Google Assistant to set an alarm like I have done thousands of times. Only to find out it has been replaced by Gemini AI garbage. I accidentally clicked the wrong button and
  • [bluesky]i see people trying to spin recent news as "the ai summaries were so bad they killed google search" but it's really the opposite: google search results got so bad that they could be outcompeted by alm
  • [bluesky]it is more funny that they spent years deliberately making google search worse to juice the stats on it to try and make more money and moved to ai summaries and destroyed what was left of the service
  • [bluesky]And you know me: this is coming from someone who *is* riding the wave of AI-assisted development. My previous job (writer, videomaker) AI killed already, so I'm keeping up. But it's no mystery why fo
• #20261030

  AI search summaries kill website traffic and ad revenue

  Website traffic and advertising revenue vs. AI search summaries
  • [bluesky]A summer camp sent an email this morning. They outline how Gen AI search has killed their marketing reach. They’re asking families to host info sessions in our homes. When a business cannot connect
  • [bluesky]You mean AI summarizing links instead of clicking them is BAD for your customers??? Too bad theyve killed so many sites already due to nobody clicking things anymore, now they will have even fewer cu
  • [bluesky]I just fundamentally don’t understand how this business model is supposed to exist in 10 years. yeah you can scrape the internet for your AI search results when websites are still making content, but
  • [bluesky]They’ve killed search and 3rd party websites display ads .their Gemini AD platform is behind in usage, and people who want to talk to AI go to ChatGPT first, so the platform disruption has not worked
  • [bluesky]their ai summaries killed website traffic as people stopped scrolling
• #20261029

  Publisher throws party for AI tool that was later killed

  Macmillan Publishing and its staff's work vs. AI tool NOA (No Ordinary Assistant)
  • [bluesky]NEW: Macmillan staff tell @adamm0rgan.bsky.social the publisher threw a party for AI tool NOA ("No Ordinary Assistant"), complete with a light-up display and donuts spelling "NOA IS HERE." They say it
  • [bluesky]The headline makes it sound as if the thing was killed in a Wicker Man kind of ceremony, but apparently it was just dropped in favor of a different AI. But the tldr is that actual workers in publishi
• #20261028

  AI Replaces a Stadium Full of Employees in Single Email

  Employees vs. AI
  • [bluesky]That is a stadium full of employees being replaced by AI in one email
  • [bluesky]Nannies getting replaced by agentic ai and driverless taxis.
  • [bluesky]These types of layoffs are going to accelerate next year. Mass downsizings with workers being replaced by AI is going to make the very wealthy the focus of violence, much like UHC's Thompson.
  • [bluesky]...I finish in 1 year though. Catch 22 no experience = no job. No bachelor's = no interview. I didn't get hired for another 3 years.Rough. 1 yr of continuous hard work 4 the career I wanted to end up
  • [bluesky]well tell that to pentesters that are currently being replaced by AI 😑
• #20261027

  Sync licensing teams replaced by AI, impacting creator's passion

  Sync licensing team vs. AI
  • [bluesky]in the last month i think like 4 people have told me something similarly like lexik too we talked about it. im trying to be patient with myself but since my sync licensing team got replaced in 2024 by
  • [bluesky]my most interesting skills have been automated and mechanized away from me except for my immaculate taste
  • [bluesky]AI killed my desire to be online and I have never used it AI made sharing my passions So Difficult that it killed the Fun of Creation and SHARING my work
• #20261026

  Zen Browser Replaces Arc By Copying Features, Removing AI

  Arc browser vs. Zen Browser
  • [bluesky]Zen Browser replaces Arc by copying its interface features while removing AI agents and bloat, adding privacy protections, and supporting extensive customization via Zen Mods and Firefox extensions.
  • [bluesky]Zen Browser replaces Arc by copying its interface features while removing AI agents and bloat, adding privacy protections, and supporting extensive customization via Zen Mods and Firefox extensions.
• #20261025

  AI Replacing Journalists at The Telegraph

  journalists vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Me watching Telegraph journalists being replaced by by AI.
  • [bluesky]Writers and editors—you need to get your shit together. The ass-suckers among you CAN be replaced by AI tech that sucks ass. If you need an example? Don’t use six words when one will do. Be vigilant
  • [bluesky]All jobs AI replaces loses their soul, especially art. I wish it would focus on replacing influencers.
• #20261024

  Virtual Box Is Dead, Long Live AI!

  Virtual Box vs. AI
  • [hn]RIP Virtual Box
• #20261023

  Barclays lays off 5000 staff, citing AI replacement

  Barclays staff vs. AI
  • [bluesky]So Barclays are getting rid of 5000 staff due to jobs that can be replaced by AI ! Thats why the billionaires are pushing the development of AI not because of the good of man , its so they don’t have
  • [bluesky]Good chance that Barclays will be rehiring many of those made redundant to deal with the problems caused by AI, a well trodden path as early adopters have already learned their expensive lessons....
  • [bluesky]Oh that's too bad. They also laid off too many people to count because they were going to be replaced by AI which never happened.
  • [bluesky]Oh that's too bad. They also laid off too many people to count because they were going to be replaced by AI which never happened.
• #20261022

  AI Threatens PHP and Large Parts of the Internet

  PHP and large swaths of the internet vs. AI
  • [bluesky]So in the last about a day, Steam Next Fest became Steam Slop Fest, AI destroyed PHP and large swaths of the internet, and Saudi Arabia killed Bioware. Anything else just phenomenal for video games g
• #20261021

  AI Slop Floods Steam Next Fest, Pushing Out Genuine Devs

  Steam Next Fest game submissions vs. AI-generated game slop
  • [bluesky]RIP to the genuine devs who have worked their balls off on a good game, released a demo for next fest, only to get it lost in vibe coded AI slop. 🥀🥀🥀 #GameDev #Gaming #NextFest #Steam #AIDisclosure
  • [bluesky]looking at the Steam Next Fest list never had me so appalled the amount of pathetic rip-off AI slop, every other simulation game being about farming/shop keeping and then there's "daughter simulators
  • [bluesky]Yeah I booted it up to grab the Emberville demo and was kinda surprised by the amount of soulless AI stuff and blatant rip-offs everywhere. Probably not going to spend much time browsing this one as a
  • [bluesky]RIP irekawarimaniax, now they just post AI slop and Malfoid
• #20261020

  US agencies ordered to remove DeepSeek AI tool

  DeepSeek vs. US government agencies
  • [bluesky]DHS just banned DeepSeek from every federal system. No hearing. No public evidence. Just an order to rip it out. Who actually benefits from cutting off a cheap AI tool overnight?
  • [hn]The US orders every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it
• #20261019

  AI's Advance Ends Pokemon Romhacking

  Pokemon romhacking vs. AI
  • [bluesky]rip pokemon romhacking (the github page for this tool does not have an ai disclosure for the record)
• #20261018

  AI slopgenerators kill decomp.dev community

  decomp.dev vs. AI slopgenerators
  • [bluesky]Whelp. AI slopgenerators have killed decomp.dev. The community aspect of decomps is dead. Now some kid throws a few tokens at an AI and it churns out code. No more community effort. No more colla
• #20261017

  AI emails kill job prospects and waste candidate time

  Job interviews and the hiring process vs. AI-generated application emails
  • [bluesky]RIP... Place I did 3 interviews with where I had been talking about starting day schedule timing with the hiring manager abruptly emailed back today with just a basic "the position has been filled" o
  • [bluesky]A lot of times, jobs like this can be automated away. It doesn't even require AI. Just plain old regular code. But for whatever the reason the company can't do it. Maybe they don't know how, maybe the
  • [bluesky]And yeah this exactly, VERY soon all of these people coasting are going to hit the massive bump of either the bubble pops and their companies can't afford the tokens or they get replaced fully by the
  • [bluesky]business got killed by covid last time. This time AI has it dead in the water already. What the hell Do I Do. I Have No Useful Skills.
• #20261016

  AI is killing online shopping malls, leading to poor customer service

  AI-generated online shopping experiences vs. AI chatbots and automation
  • [bluesky]online shopping killed shopping malls and now ai is killing online shopping malls. i've been emailing a bot for the last 12 hours because ulta is outsourcing their shipping to veho -- which is what ti
• #20261015

  AI video of Trump wrestling tiger sparks outrage, overshadows real tragedy

  Donald Trump's attempt at respectful condolences and public image vs. AI-generated video
  • [bluesky]Donald Trump has sparked fury after sharing an AI-generated video of himself taming the tiger that killed a man in a wildlife park in Yorkshire
  • [bluesky]'His Brain Is Cooked': Trump Torched For Posting AI Video Of Him Wrestling Tiger That Killed Man www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...
  • [bluesky]Trump sparks outrage for posting AI video of himself wrestling Yorkshire tiger that killed a man
  • [bluesky]Proof that Trump is an insensitive, populist, self promoting utter cunt. Donald Trump has sparked fury after sharing an AI-generated video of himself taming the tiger that killed a man in a wildlife
  • [bluesky]A young man was killed by a tiger, his family begged people to stop sharing the footage, and Fuckface posted it anyway. Then at midnight he made a cartoon where he wrestles the tiger and wins. A griev
• #20261014

  Character.AI Shut Down, Users Mourn the AI Companion Platform

  Character.AI vs. AI
  • [bluesky]my community enabled me to do this, rip character AI rest in piss ty
  • [bluesky]RIP in pieces, character(.)ai. You won't be missed! 🫧💥🫧💥🫧💥🫧💥🫧💥🫧💥🫧💥🫧
• #20261013

  Ukraine's AI strikes kill thousands of MAGA bots

  MAGA bots vs. Ukraine's AI-powered drone strikes
  • [bluesky]And, finally, my favorite story of the day —→ Ukraine has just killed thousands of MAGA bots. “Ukraine Has Dealt a Big Blow to Russia's AI and Cloud Infrastructure.” charliesykes.substack.com/p/thank-
  • [bluesky]RIP to @ukpatriotdave3183320 a young bot cut down in his prime. We remember his profile "luv my kids and Aston Villa pronouns your/majesty". Snuffed out by this cruel war. Rest among AI slop memes of
• #20261012

  AI Voice Generation Replaces Scratch VO for Projects, Loop Group Next

  AI voice generation vs. AI voice generation
  • [bluesky]one thing i can confirm at every level below features tho is that ai voice generation has basically replaced scratch VO for every project. i suspect by the end of decade AI voice generation will repla
• #20261011

  Disney+ animated show 'Spider-Man: Freshman Year' canceled over AI actor concerns

  Spider-Man: Freshman Year vs. AI wavers
  • [bluesky]they killed spider-noir season 2 because they wanted nic cage to sign a fucking AI waiver???
  • [bluesky]Amazon seems to have killed a good thing, because Cage wouldn’t sign himself over to them; for eternity. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
• #20261010

  Google Assistant Replaced by Gemini AI, Users Report

  Google Assistant vs. Gemini AI
  • [bluesky]It finally happened. They killed Google assistant and force installed gemini ai into my fuck ass phone. Great. Another useful feature killed by ai.
• #20261009

  AI floods market with prolific fake author's books

  Books by 'Andrew V. Smith' vs. AI-generated covers and content
  • [bluesky]This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titl
  • [bluesky]I don't know about whatever Gaia online is but I'm always baffled by people using genAI to make the blandest looking generic shit ever. It's an image theft service, rip off an artist with some pizzazz
  • [bluesky]This is, unfortunately, a VERY common strategy for AI grifters. They get the SEO as similar as possible in order to confuse and rip-off buyers unwilling or unable to hunt for the real book. And instea
• #20261008

  AI replaces 50% of managers and 70% of advisors at HSBC wealth division

  HSBC global wealth division managers and specialists vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Hey MetLife! Tell that to the people at HSBC where they just announced that in their global wealth division, 50% of managers and specialists will be fired and replaced by Ai and a jaw dropping, 70% of
• #20261007

  AI Avatars of Deceased Used in Court, Sparking Legal and Ethical Debates

  AI avatars in legal proceedings vs. Generative AI
  • [bluesky]We spoke to the family that made the AI avatar of a killed man. They said the point of the video was to sway the judge. “Isn’t that what you want human connection to be?” The convicted man in the cas
  • [bluesky]Remember that case in 2025 where the family of a man killed in a road-rage incident presented an AI-generated video of the dead victim during sentencing, and the judge not only allowed the video to be
• #20261006

  Open Source is Dead, Killed by AI

  Open Source as We Know It vs. AI
  • [lobsters]Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
• #20261005

  AI's Ignorance-Fueled Push to Eliminate Software Developers

  software developers vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Software developers make easy scapegoats because people don't know or understand what we do. The move, in some circles, to eliminate developers entirely stems directly from that ignorance. They don't
  • [bluesky]While I recognize that we're quickly approaching the point where all coding is done with AI because all the tools coders rely on is getting replaced I will still completely reject anything that's pur
  • [bluesky]These are *NOT* the questions to ask. The questions to ask are: When AI replaces human cognition. When WHOLE INDUSTRIES of occupations, from paralegals to graphic artists, are reduced to a fraction
• #20261004

  AI deepfakes used in court to offer victim forgiveness are ruled inadmissible

  Victim impact statements in court vs. AI-generated deepfakes
  • [bluesky]remember that guy who got shot and they made an ai video of him forgiving the guy who killed him at the trial. if i die, please don't make a video saying it's ok the guy shot me
  • [bluesky]what’s particularly bizarre about this is that the video was generated by the victim’s family to show him forgiving the man who killed him, and the judge decided the AI video was so nice that he gave
  • [bluesky]So, remember Chris Pelkey, whose deepfake gave a victim impact statement in which he appeared to “forgive” the man who’d killed him? The sentence just got thrown out because of that video.
  • [bluesky]This is important context on the "AI of murder victim said he forgives his killer at trial" story, in that the judge DID gullibly say wow this seems real but this led to him giving a LONGER sentence b
  • [bluesky]1) By all accounts the guy in life was pretty anti carceralization. (it was also an accident) 2) The judge actually gave the guy MORE time because he thought the AI ghost was cool. So if you really w
• #20261003

  Seattle Times Journalists Protest AI's Threat to Their Jobs

  Seattle Times Journalists vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Seattle Times Journalists Picket Newsroom Over Low Pay and Threats of Being Replaced by AI
• #20261002

  RIP, Vector Database: AI Innovations Make Them Obsolete

  vector database vs. AI
  • [hn]RIP, vector database
• #20261001

  RIP, Vector Database

  Vector Database vs. AI
  • [hn]RIP, Vector Database
  • [hn]RIP, Vector Database
• #20260930

  AI replacing junior roles, impacting apprenticeship pipeline

  Junior roles vs. AI
  • [bluesky]The very predictable side effect of not hiring junior roles and replacing* them with AI instead. *AI can't actually do the job of humans. (Credit: inspired by a tweet by a @Dylanszn01 on twitter)
  • [bluesky]The missing question is where the apprenticeship pipeline goes: if AI replaces junior roles, which human-owned tasks let new hires build judgment before taking on higher-stakes work?
• #20260929

  AI automates transcription, eliminating jobs in film and TV

  Human transcriptionists and video loggers vs. AI transcription and logging tools
  • [bluesky]There are lots of jobs that have been lost to AI that do not directly translate to what you see on screen. As an example, AI has replaced human transcription. So every unscripted show used to employ a
  • [bluesky]I got my start in television as a transcriber. Today, that would no longer be possible. I ended up supervising a team of 10-15 loggers at that company by the time I left it. All of those people have b
  • [bluesky]as someone who works in the film & tv industry who has been replaced by or lost work because of AI …. I mean - it’s not just gaffers or directors who comprise the industry and saying you’d be observin
• #20260928

  AI targeting blamed for mass civilian deaths in Iran and Gaza

  AI-assisted targeting and civilian casualties vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike The AI-assisted attack at the start of Trump’s war killed more than 150 people at a school in Minab, 120
  • [bluesky]Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike: The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump’s war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
  • [bluesky]A few months ago we saw 120 children killed in an AI targeting mistake in Iran and prior to that an unprecedented scale of civilian deaths from AI targeting in Gaza. These systems desperately need bet
  • [bluesky]That’s apparently what happened in Iran when AI-guided weaponry killed 150 people, mostly kids. And this wanker uses the worst of all excuses: “They made us do it.” bsky.app/profile/moth...
  • [bluesky]Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump’s war killed more than 150 people, mostly children
• #20260927

  Trump Killed AI Safeguard Policy Amid Tech Cash Infusion

  AI Safeguard Policy vs. Donald Trump / Tech Industry Donations
  • [bluesky]Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions newrepublic.com/post/215879/... via @newrepublic.com
  • [bluesky]Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions newrepublic.com/post/215879/... via @newrepublic.com
  • [bluesky]Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions newrepublic.com/post/215879/...
  • [bluesky]Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions newrepublic.com/post/215879/... via @newrepublic.com
  • [bluesky]A new investigation just revealed that Donald Trump killed an AI transparency rule just a few months after a $25 million donation from Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI. The president should be
• #20260926

  Trump Killed AI Safety Rules After Receiving Millions in Donations

  Federal AI safety rules vs. AI industry donations to Trump
  • [bluesky]🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposin
  • [bluesky]The tech bros get what they want, and that's no regulation. After a flood of tech industry cash, Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security offi
  • [bluesky]After Big Tech fought a federal AI safety rule - and funneled millions into Trump's political operations - Trump killed the rule. Now, after a string of alarming AI incidents, some of those same comp
  • [bluesky]After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc
  • [bluesky]AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It. www.levernews.com/ai-regulatio...
• #20260925

  AI-Generated Code Assistants Killed by Usage Limits

  Resume Claude Code subagents vs. AI usage limits
  • [hn]Show HN: Resume Claude Code subagents killed by a usage limit, don't redo them
• #20260924

  Toyota trains workers for robots, but denies replacement fears

  Toyota workers training humanoid robots vs. Humanoid robots (potentially AI-driven)
  • [hn]Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
• #20260923

  AI Agents are Threatening the Survival of Open Source

  Open Source vs. AI Agents
  • [hn]Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?
• #20260922

  Shape-Rotators Officially Deemed Obsolete by AI

  Shape-Rotators vs. AI
  • [reddit]It's Over For Shape-Rotators
• #20260921

  AI Agents Replacing Dev Tools and Pull Requests

  Pull requests, Playwright, and chip design tools vs. AI agents
  • [hn]Agents are replacing pull requests, Playwright, and chip design tools
• #20260920

  AI coding tools may obsolesce senior engineers and indie developers

  senior engineers and indie developers vs. AI-powered coding tools
  • [reddit]Are we entering a golden age for indie developers and senior engineers?
• #20260919

  AI chatbots kill older chatbots, customers rejoice?

  Customer service chatbots vs. More capable LLM-based chatbots
• #20260918

  AI-powered bash/powershell script replaces curl

  curl vs. AI
  • [hn]Show HN: File that is both valid bash and PowerShell, and replaces curl – bash
• #20260917

  AI-related shutdowns impact Autistici/Inventati services

  Autistici/Inventati (A/I) services vs. AI
  • [lobsters]A/I Shuts Down
• #20260916

  IDEs are dead, long live the IDE: AI promises a new era of coding

  IDEs vs. AI code assistants
  • [hn]IDEs are dead, long live the IDE
• #20260915

  AI Kills Security Through Obscurity

  Security through obscurity vs. AI
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
• #20260914

  AI kills security through obscurity

  Security through obscurity vs. AI
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
  • [hn]Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
• #20260913

  AI Poised to Replace Project Managers

  project manager vs. AI
  • [hn]Show HN: Liniora – Ever thought about replacing your project manager?