{"slug": "ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai", "title": "Ask HN: Anyone missing the human aspect of pre AI?", "summary": "A tech worker paid five pounds for a poem written on a typewriter by a local poet, calling it the best writing they had read in two years. The worker, who has been in the industry for a decade, expressed burnout from AI hype and frustration with their company using AI for employee rankings and layoffs.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nSome guy in my city writes poems using a typewriter and his brain. I paid 5 pounds for it and it was one of the best things I’ve read in 2 years. Maybe I’m just burnt out from all this AI hype and feel the need to speak into the void. 10 years into this career and feeling empty. Between my company ranking employees with AI and doing layoffs using AI, I can’t help but to think this whole thing is a sick joke | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345371", "published_at": "2026-05-31 13:05:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-31 13:18:53.443104+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-products"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-anyone-missing-the-human-aspect-of-pre-ai.jsonld"}}