While I get your point, this kind of gives me "Old man yelling at cloud" vibes. Yes, all the AI talk and bullshit bingo became quite annoying at this point, and I also can't wait for it to settle. But AI is here, and it's here to stay. Wether we like it or not. It's like what dotcom was for the internet back then. We'll get through this eventually - with a bubble bursting here and there - but making fun of it with overtuned phrases like "Everything will be connected to the internet in the future, even your fridge, car and toothbrush!" won't age too well I am afraid.

I think the point is that AI was here 40 years ago [1].

LLMs/RAGs/Transformers are the newish thing that's here to stay.

I've seen my colleagues vocabulary regress from "training transformers" to just "using AI", without clarifying if are using claude or actually building a network. I was recently told that no one says "vibe coding" any more (now it "agentic AI", I was told). My colleague who does ML research was told he was the only one at his workplace that wasn't doing AI.

So the problem isn't the technology (a lot of the technology is great), it's that the discussion around it has been dumbed down by hype.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-04-rescan

I'm Gen Z..

and I'm just regurgitating what Google sends me via email and funny things like renaming Vertex AI to "Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform" (not a joke) even though Vertex is mostly used for inference, e.g. Claude via gcloud or fine tuning models etc.

and I use Claude code every day, so I'm not like completely dismissing AI/agentic stuff.

People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well

The point is that other topics exist that deserve talking about. There is SO much talk about LLMs everywhere, and in this kind of event they will eclipse other, perhaps more interesting conversations.

The old man yelling at the cloud is often correct, just powerless.

gives me … vibes.

Your writing says a lot about you, too.