I love LLMs, I hate hype(geohot.github.io)
441 points by therepanic 18 hours ago | 278 comments
tl;dr: The author is genuinely enthusiastic about AI progress (LLMs, self-driving, coding agents) but pushes back on two forms of hype: doom-y "you're falling behind" FOMO messaging, and the leap from "fancy autocomplete" to imminent superintelligence singularity. They argue frontier labs won't capture AI's value because progress is driven by Moore's law and general computing advances, not proprietary breakthroughs—which is why anti-open-source arguments are really about fear of commodification. Coding agents are useful new tools, but they're an incremental productivity boost, not a revolution.
HN Discussion:
  • Agrees frontier labs won't capture AI's value and hype should be questioned
  • LLMs are useful incremental tools for building bespoke personal software
  • Recent model releases suggest acceleration toward ASI is real, undermining skepticism
  • Concerns about subsidized pricing and whether local models will catch up
  • ~The 'useful tool' framing ignores how people actually misuse LLMs in practice