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The Download: why AI's latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than rea

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  1. Tbarlow · · focus · HN ↗
    Feels like the blockchain bubble all over again, just with more impressive demo reels. Still waiting for my LLM to write perfect code.
    1. VCFundedGenYer · · focus · HN ↗
      I maintain the notion that LLMs are just what all NFT grifters moved to after the NFT fad died.
      1. 0xDEAFBEAD · · focus · HN ↗
        Anthropic is now running at $100B in annual revenue. Based on a quick Google, that's about 3 OOMs greater than the biggest NFT company.
      2. jaapz · · focus · HN ↗
        I really don't get this. Sure there is hype. But LLM's have already changed our industry, and it will never be the same.

        I don't care whether the LLM can solve this or that mathematical previously thought unsolvable theorem. What I do care about is can it write good, maintainable code. And every new release of frontier models - they get better at it.

        Good output depends on good input (prompt), and a good set of available tools the model can use to verify their work. If given this, nowadays really you need to try to get the model to output garbage.

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