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> It's a bubble if the tech or audience wasn't there and capabilities weren't improving weekly.

But...is it and are they? Gen AI boosters tend to make assertions like this as if they're unassailable facts, but never seem interested in backing them up. I guess it's easier than thinking.

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The whole mindset of LLM boosterism is that thinking is obsolete anyway — all you need is pattern matching on existing data — so it's not surprising that they don't want to indulge in it excessively.

Thinking is absolutely not obsolete with LLMs.

Human thought is the only way any software (including LLMs) operate efficiently.

Same goes for leveraging LLMs.

As a tech person..

It is, and they are.

For the boosters, notice how few or many come from a tech background and pay attention accordingly

To paraphrase The Princess Bride, "Won't work, I know too many tech people."

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