Let's actually not talk about LLMs.

I honestly couldn't force myself to finish yet another blog post about how "we're not yet sure what impact LLMs will have on society" or whatever beleaguered point the author was attempting to make.

"Some random person's take on LLMs" was maybe interesting in 2024. Today it is not even remotely interesting.

There are a gazillion more interesting things happening today that ought to be of interest to the median HN reader. Can we talk about those instead?

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jubilanti 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm confused. If you don't want to talk about LLMs then why didn't you just flag the post and move on? Submit something interesting, upvote and comment on interesting posts, instead of feeding the engagement on this thread.

It sounds like you actually do want to talk about how much you don't want other people to talk about LLMs.

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famouswaffles 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're not supposed to flag a post for something like that. Ideally you downvote and move on if you feel that strongly about it. Flagging is meant to be reserved for stuff that breaks the rules or guidelines.

	▲	WolfeReader 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stories can't be downvoted.

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stackghost 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, I definitely flagged the post also.

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mettamage 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am an AI engineer and I honestly agree. Talking about LLMs feels like the new crypto, with some nuances (i.e. many innovative things being possible and done with LLMs whereas crypto innovations were… few and far between).

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dijksterhuis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

it’s felt like the new crypto to me for about 2-3 years now.

i was doing an ML Sec phd a year or two before all this hype took off. i took one of the OG transformer papers along to present at our official little phd reading group when the paper was only a few months old (the details of this might be a bit sketchy here, was years ago now).

now i want nothing to do with the field in any way shape or form. i’m just done.

edit -- i got incredibly angry after writing this comment. pure hatred and spite for all the charlatans and accompanying bullshit.

	▲	eiekeww 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sadly investing is all about making money… you should be more pissed at the naive people who have contributed to the effort and in particular those who don’t care about truth, but about cash flow potential.

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keybored 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tedious LLM discourse isn’t aimed at AI engineers. It’s doomscrolling fodder for regular programmers.