alt Hacker News> I hope people realize that tools like caveman are mostly joke/prank projects
This seems to be a common thread in the LLM ecosystem; someone starts a project for shits and giggles, makes it public, most people get the joke, others think it's serious, author eventually tries to turn the joke project into a VC-funded business, some people are standing watching with the jaws open, the world moves on.
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> most people get the joke
I hope you're right, but from my own personal experience I think you're being way too generous.
This has been a thing way before AI. Anyone remembers Yo, the single button social media app that raised $1M in 2014?
Its the same as cyrpto/nft hype cyles, except this time one of the joke projects is going to crash the economy.
A major reason for that is because there's no way to objectively evaluate the performance of LLMs. So the meme projects are equally as valid as the serious ones, since the merits of both are based entirely on anecdata.
It also doesn't help that projects and practices are promoted and adopted based on influencer clout. Karpathy's takes will drown out ones from "lesser" personas, whether they have any value or not.
I was convinced https://github.com/memvid/memvid was a joke until it turned out it wasn't.