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So much burying the head in the sand from people in this industry and wishful thinking that AI will stop before whatever they're good at. A little reminder a couple years ago most people hadn't even heard of LLMs.
I'll give it 3-4 years before it's gone the way of crypto: still exists, still used (and still useful in the right cases), not something most people are talking about.
It's going to be really nice.
Is the cynical depression coming from watching people build your future without you while you're not a part of the conversation? Correct me if I'm wrong.
If "most of us" wish we'd hear less about LLMs how come it's always the hottest topic? That doesn't compute. Wouldn't have most of you taken over the conversation by now and changed the topic? Or perhaps whatever else you're trying to advance is just not that interesting to most of us?
My take is neither cynical nor depressed (projection on your part perhaps?), it's seeing through the hype and applying critical thinking. Same thing that I've been doing for social and tech trends for the past 20 years. My work has nothing to do with any of this, but fwiw I do work in one of the most competitive and technically advanced industries in the world, and there is absolutely 0 chance of LLMs doing anything meaningful in the field.
It's the hottest topic on HN because of the specific type of person you get here. Check out lobste.rs for a much more representative and balanced take on LLMs, for example. "Most of us" meant humans, not tech bros.
What is AI good at already — I mean apart from making a few people very rich and using tremendous amounts of resources to generate slop?