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AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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How did metaverse revolved around exclusivity or collectibles?

the metaverse went from being about owning your identity and digital possessions to mostly being about buying jpegs. once collectibles and nft speculation became the headline, it was hard to explain why any of the underlying technology mattered. after that, most people just associated the whole thing with speculation rather than the original vision. which is a shame, I still feel like VR is full of untapped potential

Yeah - they not just VRChat but many other VR projects are alive and very active, doing verz innovative and almost marvelous things most people don't know anything about.

It might not be a mainstream thing any time soon or ever, but that is not necessary as long as the people invovled woth VR are having fun. :)

Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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> and AI has yet to show any real utility Ummm ... have you not tried using LLMs for coding work?

Not OP, but I have, and I'm not impressed. Perhaps it would be good if you are doing things in the training data (like churning out yet another bland website). But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. They are great for finding the right ffmpg command line arguments though, and not having to deal with that mess mu…

> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently.

Have you tried since November 2025?

Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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Random shitcoin mining surely isn't a large fraction of industrial GPU usage?

Not anymore, but around 10 years ago it absolutely was, because for a short period you could literally print money with them.

Ah, but any 10 year old GPU now is e-waste, not useful LLM hardware. So it might as well have been mining ASICs.

Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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Not OP, but I have, and I'm not impressed. Perhaps it would be good if you are doing things in the training data (like churning out yet another bland website). But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. They are great for finding the right ffmpg command line arguments though, and not having to deal with that mess mu…

> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. Have you tried since November 2025?

>have you tried since $date

You guys have been saying that every few months.

Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. Have you tried since November 2025?

>have you tried since $date You guys have been saying that every few months.

And you guys have been consistently replying with that exact same comment.

Re: AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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Not OP, but I have, and I'm not impressed. Perhaps it would be good if you are doing things in the training data (like churning out yet another bland website). But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. They are great for finding the right ffmpg command line arguments though, and not having to deal with that mess mu…

> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. Have you tried since November 2025?

They did get better around that time but there are some things that they are legitimately bad at for now.
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