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Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

#1
Loved this site for a long time, always felt like I could come to learn something interesting and find niche topics and experts.

Feels like posts have overwhelmingly been on LLMs for the past few years and I've just lost interest.

Makes me sad, this was really my favorite site.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

#5
Lol tell me about it. My problem isn't only that it's LLM, but the same 3-5 topics over and over and over and over again:

  > This is how I use ChatGPT to write my program.
  > Here is a cool SaaS that will generate a CV for you with state of the art AI
  > AGI is happening in 5 minutes! (If it wouldn't happen, read the previous statement again)
  > LLMs are going to kill/save humanity
  > Show HN: we worked on this revolutionary next step in AI in the past 12 years. It's 100% open source, come! (Narrator: it's a 200 lines python wrapper over OpenAI api)

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

#7
The blockchain-people needed to go somewhere once people realized that thekr solution in search of a problem isn't gonna stick.

Not saying that there is interesting bits in LLM research, it is just completely drowned out by the hype chasers whl smell the next gold rush.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN

#8
It's the current hotness in tech. HN has always included trending tech topics. Ever since HN started, I've seen -

* Explosion of social media

* JavaScript libraries and the frontend revolution to modernizing the web and browsers

* Mobile apps

* Crypto

* Machine Learning

and now, AI & LLMs.

The only difference LLMs have with the others is the learning curve. The others, one could easily hop on the trend. With LLMs, before being able to understand what everyone's talking about, there's a lot to know. There can be a sense of being left out. I think that can be demotivating.

edit: formatting

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