Even tools like Claude Code have only been fully released for six months, and they've already had a pretty dramatic impact on how many developers work.
It scares the absolute shit out of everyone.
It's clear far beyond our little tech world to everyone this is going to collapse our entire economic system, destroy everyone's livelihoods, and put even more firmly into control the oligarchic assholes already running everything and turning the world to shit.
I see it in news, commentary, day to day conversation. People get it's for real this time and there's a very real chance it ends in something like the Terminator except far worse.
Not trying to challenge you, and I'd sincerely love to read your response. People said similar things about previous gen-AI tool announcements that proved over time to be overstated. Is there some reason to put more weight in "what people on HN said" in this case, compared to previous situations?
1. They likely work at the company (and have RSUs that need to go up)
2. Also invested in the company in the open market or have active call options.
3. Trying to sell you their "AI product".
4. All of the above.
I don't see any other way of doing this. The people who keep reading and following comments either here on HN, from LocalLlama or otherwise will continue to be misinformed by all the FUD and guerilla marketing that is happening across all of these places.
Google being able to skip ahead of every other AI company is wild. They just sat back and watched, then decided it was time to body the competition.
The DOJ really should break up Google [1]. They have too many incumbent advantages that were already abuse of monopoly power.
[1] https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/ - call your reps and tell them!
The problem with Google is that someone had to show them how to make a product out of the thing, which Open AI did.
Then Anthropic taught them to make a more specific product out of there models
In every aspect, they're just playing catch up, and playing me too.
Models are only part of the solution
The reason for this is because LLM companies have tuned their models to aggressively blow smoke up their users' asses.
These "tools" are designed to aggressively exploit human confirmation bias, so as to prevent the user from identifying their innumerable inadequacies.