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

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geerlingguy wrote: post #12
TheMongoose wrote: post #2

It's not just here, it's everywhere. I'm excited for the day the hype bubble collapses.

Honestly this. Every product on the market today also shoehorns in AI somewhere, it feels worse than the heyday of CloudToButt in the Cloud frenzy.

I'm really interested to watch the train wreck that every "we are replacing developers with AI" company is setting themselves up for currently. At least the cloud has SOME merits, even if it is still vastly overused.

Saw an Upwork post the other day looking for someone to fix merge conflicts in 20 Devin created PR's. =)

P.S. I enjoy your content, keep hacking away at funky projects!

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

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Post by 3vidence »

thallavajhula wrote: post #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, be…

For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been.

Obviously there was a a million crypto posts and it was annoying but crypto covered a specific niche of overall software stuff (payment processing).

With LLMs it feels like every topic somehow has to come back to LLMs.

I currently work as a ML Eng at FAANG so maybe it adds to my exhaustion on the topic.

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

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Post by 3vidence »

oidar wrote: post #14

OpenAI is valued at ~150 billion. Anthropic is valued at ~60 billion. nvidia was valued at $15/share in 2023 and is now valued at $150/share. It might seem that LLMs have sucked all the air out of the room, this is why. If you find LLMs boring, you are in for a very boring couple of decades - because it's not going away.

I do currently work on ML projects at FAANG. Idk I just always found HN my escape into more interesting topics, now it's just my day job.

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

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Post by TheMongoose »

bediger4000 wrote: post #20
TheMongoose wrote: post #2

It's not just here, it's everywhere. I'm excited for the day the hype bubble collapses.

This too shall pass, just like NFTs and blockchain for everything.

Tell that to the half dozen blockchain job descriptions I read today and closed as soon as they admitted to being blockchain companies.

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

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Post by 3vidence »

scojjac wrote: post #9

Very meta post. ;) I need a filter on all web browsing so that I never hear about LLMs ever again. They're a scourge on critical thinking, on workers, on the environment, on the internet. If they are the future, leave me behind.

I wrote my own front end for HN using Flutter (just a pet project) specifically so I could have dark mode and a topic filter.

But I just got tired of adding new AI topics to the filter.

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

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Post by 3vidence »

mediumsmart wrote: post #16

That is sad that you come for the posts and not the comments.

Shouldn't these be related?

If the posts are on LLMs the comments are going to be on LLMs.

But I agree with the notion the comments are the valuable part of HN, the topic is just a jumping off point.

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