Comment by Aurornis

It’s amazing how much the goal posts move in every AI conversation. A couple of years ago the average HN thread about AI would be filled to the brim with skepticism about AI ever being able to accomplish anything other than flappy bird clones.

Now it’s comments like this lamenting that the amazing LLMs we’ve had since early 2026 haven’t entirely revolutionized the whole physical world and even global geopolitics yet.

> But hey...on the flip side...a lot of people are rapidly building software (that nobody is using),

I guarantee a lot of software you use today has substantial AI development in recent releases.

Even the Linux kernel is getting a heavy input from AI and Linus is advocating for it. Unless you’ve frozen your entire software stack in 2024, you are using software with AI generated code.

> and AI is solving mathematics problems (that nobody - including mathematicians - wanted it to solve)

Saying nobody wants those problems solved is flat dishonest. The complaints from some mathematicians are that they and their peers didn’t get to put their names on the papers, not complaints that the problems were solved.