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.