Yeah I think it's because people want it to be true that LLMs will stop improving and regress. If nothing else they can always just access data from the before times if it was an actual issue
So much burying the head in the sand from people in this industry and wishful thinking that AI will stop before whatever they're good at. A little reminder a couple years ago most people hadn't even heard of LLMs.
Most of us wish we could stop hearing about LLMs. A little reminder that every year since 2022 has been the last year that anyone will ever do anything by hand according to you prophets.
I'll give it 3-4 years before it's gone the way of crypto: still exists, still used (and still useful in the right cases), not something most people are talking about.
I don't really understand this take. You're unhappy because people are excited? May I ask, what do you work on and what do you get excited about that you'd rather advance? Do you think you're part of the group that is highly motivated and advancing ideas and people around them? Because I work with a lot of people in this group and this is the most exciting time I've experienced in my 30+ years. I am waking up and living and breathing this moment in time. I'm devouring more information than I ever have in my entire life, and it both feels like I can't get enough and that there's so much I'll never be able to keep up. So I really hope whatever you have in your pocket is just as interesting and excites people this much.
Is the cynical depression coming from watching people build your future without you while you're not a part of the conversation? Correct me if I'm wrong.
If "most of us" wish we'd hear less about LLMs how come it's always the hottest topic? That doesn't compute. Wouldn't have most of you taken over the conversation by now and changed the topic? Or perhaps whatever else you're trying to advance is just not that interesting to most of us?
I'm not unhappy that anyone is excited, I'm frustrated by the amount of time and effort being wasted right now, and especially by how out of control people's expectations about these tools are. I say this as a daily user of multiple different LLM tools, including state of the art coding agents.
My take is neither cynical nor depressed (projection on your part perhaps?), it's seeing through the hype and applying critical thinking. Same thing that I've been doing for social and tech trends for the past 20 years. My work has nothing to do with any of this, but fwiw I do work in one of the most competitive and technically advanced industries in the world, and there is absolutely 0 chance of LLMs doing anything meaningful in the field.
It's the hottest topic on HN because of the specific type of person you get here. Check out lobste.rs for a much more representative and balanced take on LLMs, for example. "Most of us" meant humans, not tech bros.
