| 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. | |
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