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Comment by ThrowawayR2

5 days ago

> "I've noticed that the bar for 'quality' when people judge AI is often significantly higher than what they'd hold a human to."

Because that is literally the hype being fed to us by the marketers at the AI companies and HN users promoting AI.

- AI promoters: "AI is doing Ph.D level work! LLMs are not just a token predictor, it is actually thinking and reasoning! It will replace all developers, including _you_, so get on board the AI hype train now!"

- AI promoters when confronted with blatant mistakes and reasoning errors from cutting edge models: "Why are you holding LLMs up to higher standards than humans? That's not fair or reasonable."