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Yeah, I'm not putting stock in this at all. The methodology of this survey seems dubious.

30% of the articles on this forum are covert LLM advertising

Good, it's not just me.

I guess it's not a massive surprise given it's an HN forum and a reasonable percentage of HN candidates are doing LLM/AI stuff in recent cohorts, but it still means I have to apply a very big filter every time I open an article and people wax lyrical about how amazing Claude-GPT-super-codez is and how it has made them twice the engineer they were yesterday at the bargain price of $200 a month...

May it all die in a fire very soon. Butlerian jihad now.

I agree. Burn the machines-that-think.

To anyone reading, if you work on LLM software, I hope that your business fails.

Every single last link here is some form of an advertisement, why single out LLM-related ads?

because the underlying technology is so egregiously overhyped in relation to the quality of the services offered

Sure, but why this technology. It's not like that's the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last.

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