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simonwyesterday at 11:54 AM1 replyview on HN

If you listen to promises like that you're going get burned.

One of the key skills needed in working with LLMs is learning to ignore the hype and marketing and figure out what these things are actually capable of, as opposed to LinkedIn bluster and claims from CEOs who's net worth are tied to investor sentiment in their companies.

If someone spends more time talking about "AGI" then what they're actually building, filter that person out.


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pydryyesterday at 1:42 PM

>One of the key skills needed in working with LLMs is learning to ignore the hype and marketing and figure out what these things are actually capable of

This is precisely what led me to realize that while they have some use for code review and analyzing docs, for coding purposes they are fairly useless.

The hypesters responses' to this assertion exclusively into 5 categories. Ive never heard a 6th.