Witness any HN comment thread with "pro-AI" vibes (which is almost all of them). It's almost as though AI has become a religion.
More re hype as the product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44737346
I feel like we’re reading two different versions of HN. Any thread about AI gets filled up with so many useless anti-AI comments from people who haven’t read the article that it’s hard to even discuss the topic here. I don’t even bother trying to get good AI or LLM related information out of HN right now because it’s such an openly hostile forum where cheap anti-AI comments will get upvoted more than actual discussion about articles.
Being impressed with the capabilities of an emerging technology doesn't make the person a religious zealot, and dismissing every proponent of LLMs and AI generally that way is weak and tribal.
I really don't understand how this topic has become such a badge of identity.
There's a their group of people who see these things as tools, and want to learn about them. How to use them well; their shortcomings, but as usual, the reasonable voices get drowned out by loud rants and diatribes.