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Comment by tptacek

8 hours ago

I'm sorry, I read this comment like 3 times and I still don't understand what it's trying to say. Who are the companies you're talking about and are they too positive on LLMs or too negative?

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ofjcihen  5 hours ago

Just that blind fanaticism leads to things like constant goal post moving when the product doesn’t live up to the hype. This damages people’s perception of the tool and causes them to be burnt out on it when it isn’t in fact magic.

Instead we should be accepting that people will or wont find uses for it depending on their competency (CRUD app churn VS somewhat novel creations) and accept that without telling them they’re nuts, luddites, etc.

Then again like I said the people doing that usually have something to gain such as a product related to the hype generating product.

Here’s an example article that hit the front page for HN this week https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

  • tptacek  5 hours ago

    I wrote that article, and I don't believe "any" skepticism of "AI" is nuts. As an existence proof: I think "vibe coding" produces results as bad as skeptics say it does. The article is pretty specific about what it says the nutty claims are.

    • gsf_emergency  5 hours ago

      Ahh I finally get it: you were claiming you only hang out with nuts (when it comes to AI)

      --the link itself says "you", but that's also addressing your friends I presume?

      Edit: the politicians too?

      >To the consternation of many of my friends, I’m not a radical or a futurist.

      (Apologies if you were tipsy at any point in the relevant parts)

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