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AlexandrB • today at 5:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What's new is the inversion of who holds these opinions. With the internet/computers, company leadership was often the skeptical voice while small pockets of individuals would push these technologies from the bottom. AI is the complete opposite with skepticism coming bottom-up and push to adopt coming top-down. The last time this (almost) happened was "The Metaverse" which seemed to be getting a lot of push from the C suite.

This doesn't mean LLMs will be as useless as the metaverse, but a lot of the biggest proponents of the technology within companies are those most clueless about it which feels like a red flag.

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andrekandre • today at 8:35 PM

  > This doesn't mean LLMs will be as useless as the metaverse, but a lot of the biggest proponents of the technology within companies are those most clueless about it which feels like a red flag.
(n=1 here) the end-goal i see from the c-suite (and biggest dev proponents) is with llms there is the potential to automate everything, like just write a product description then get all the tickets generated, then all the tickets are implemented by a swarm of agents and out comes a new product feature, ui and all

wether this actually reliably works out, or it just turns out to be a useful plugin/assistant is what will pop the bubble quicker rather than later imho