> Hackers have always tried out new technologies to see how they work – or break – so why would LLMs be any different?

Who says we haven't tried it out?

Seems like various hackers came to various different conclusions from trying them out, then. Why feign surprise about this?

Why not?

I was surprised how hard many here fell for the NFT thing, too.

	▲	lxgr 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please, not the old "AI is the new crypto" trope. Various people have been wrong on various predictions in the past, and it seems to me that any implied strong overlap is anecdotal at best and wishful (why?) thinking at worst. The only really embarrassing behavior is never updating your priors when your predictions are wrong. Also, if you're always right about all your prognoses, you should probably also not be in the HN comments but on a prediction market, on-chain or traditional :)