What does high effort mean when AI has made everything low effort?

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What does high effort mean when AI has made everything low effort?

The proliferation of AI tools has made shipping code extremely easy, leading to an unprecedented number of ideas being tried. However, this flood of low-effort implementations is dragging down the average quality and diminishing the perceived value of genuinely good ideas.

read1 min publishedJun 14, 2026

| |||||||||||||||| 1 point by | it's incredibly easy to ship code now. but, what does this mean when the number of good ideas are tried at levels never seen before? It's not that all AI's are shipping "slop", but it does mean that the number of less than stellar ideas are permeating the space. This is dragging down the average of what's possible. This also has the negative effect of bringing down the perceived value of genuinely good ideas. | ||||||||||||||| |

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Ask HN: I am a junior CS and math major. I have no hope for SWE or math. Advice? FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)