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Comment by Planktonne | Hacker News Reader

This is unsupported puffery. You can call any X the next Y if you cherry-pick previous evolutions to simplify the narrative and then theorise beyond your data.

I get that it's fashionable to do blue-sky AI evangelism with the breathless tone, but I also expect at least some depth.

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I have AI fatigue.

It's extremely reminiscent of the way that crypto boosters talked about Web3 being the obvious and inevitable future of the internet.

Crypto had no use besides gambling (which includes speculation) and black market currency.

LLMs have massive problems with externalities, but they have concrete and undeniable usefulness. So at the very least from that angle it's decidedly not the same as with crypto.

The hypsters will hype, that will always be the case.

The only use I have for them at work is to generate verbose texts to appease management that would not be equally happy with short concise and to the point answers.

Basically a total waste of time.

That says more about you than the technology though.

Not my fault it doesn't anything more useful.

How do you think people will write code and generate images 6 months to a year from now. Claude code, nano banana, perplexity, copilots, comet will become the default tools

Same way they do now, since now is 6 months to a year from 6 months to a year ago, when people were saying the same things.

You gotta be living in a hype bubble to believe that.

I've been in tech and have been coding for 25 years now. My workflow in the past 2 months uses coding agents for 95% of my work. Just yesterday I had my agent fix and rewrite nearly 2 weeks of a 2 member in about 30 minutes. The agent's code was a lot lot better. There there is a huge bubble, but once that bursts new patterns will emerge, Just like how ecommerce and online banking emerged, after the doc com bust

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