I ignore and focus in post more interesting, and every week I find posts which I like
Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
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#32OpenAI 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’m not sure…the hype cycle of fads has its own momentum which is somewhat independent of the actual subject. LLMs may not go away but once people realize their thin wrapper scripts won’t result in a 10B valuation, the HN discussion will change.
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#33It'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.
It's deeply funny that they hit you with the ole "you don't understand AI" when it's your day job though. So you've got that going for you.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
#34It'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.
> For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been.
Same here, for sure. I just try to dodge it all as best I can. Seems like every question has the possible answer of LLMs, and nearly always, someone provides it.
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#35No, even these first-gen LLM are transforming how I do science. Today DeepSeek tests. Great interactions. Without HN I would have been a few weeks late to the party.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
#36It'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.
> covered a specific niche of overall software stuff (payment processing)
At the time it was everything blockchain. Not just payments. Decentralized, smart contracts and the like.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
#37OpenAI 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.
Crypto market cap is trillions of dollars, and how many crypto posts do you see these days? Not really a strong argument.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
#38OpenAI 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.
Impressive numbers, but have you ever tried to use one of these things to get actual work done? They're terrible at it! Until these companies start demonstrating some actual value this is merely a hype bubble. Nvidia is slightly different categorically because they're selling the picks and shovels in this hype gold rush--but they were also in the last one (web3/crypto/nfts). At some point if these folks don't actually start delivering the value they're hyping it's all coming crashing down.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been. Same here, for sure. I just try to dodge it all as best I can. Seems like every question has the possible answer of LLMs, and nearly always, someone provides it.
There's also this annoying dissonance between 'evangelists' and reality. Evangelists often feign that we're on the cusp of artificial general intelligence, while in practice LLMs remain stupid, error prone, and unreliable for anything beyond tasks that have a vast number sources for highly relevant training. Which also somewhat dilutes the utility, because I could just as well find those sources!
Oh right, that must just be because I'm not giving it the magic prompt that makes them magically turn into geniuses.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
#40No, even these first-gen LLM are transforming how I do science. Today DeepSeek tests. Great interactions. Without HN I would have been a few weeks late to the party.
I appreciate your positive experience with the tech / content.
It's helpful for me to understand the other side of the coin.