I'm pre-burned on all hype. If people are excited, I know to ignore it while it's devalued in the search of value.

I don't like being this way but it's worked through several fads. I'll keep going with my Linux boxes. Y'all keep finding new window dressing.

There's limited use cases for LLMs and ML pipelines that are legitimately providing business impact and value beyond marketing. The market will learn that the hard way. Especially as the environmental cost of AI begins to become more apparent you'll likely see a similar social reaction that ultimately bit the Bitcoin hype.

If you're feeling burnt out on it then just don't pay attention. There's very little reason to at this point in time.

I think my expectations have become more realistic as time progresses, but no, I still enjoy the experience.

I just tackled an Arduino project for the first time. It was really nice being able to have AI talk me through the process, help me write in C++ which I'm not strong at, and generally be an accessible companion. I took on a project larger than I would've done without AI, and completed it more quickly and with more personal engagement than I would've done prior to LLMs being invented.

I don't think AI is going to magically generate the ROI that the market seems to believe, but it's such a nice modifier to my development process.

For those of us who live in a bubble, what AI hype is out there?

I recently had a problem cross my desk which the stakeholders thought might be solvable with an LLM, which may have been true, but ultimately was more easily solved using plain old boring programming techniques. Is that the hype?

While the final solution didn't need to involve LLMs or anything of that nature, I don't think said stakeholders would have been able to even envision the possibility of trying to solve said problem had semi-recent technological developments that has taken on the AI moniker not enabled them to think more creatively about what machines might be able to do. Without that, there is little chance I would have become aware of the problem someone faced.

If that's the AI hype, I'm game. Being able to get computers to do things others didn't think was possible is what brings me to the world of software development.

I guess we all are burnt out of the “hype” concept and its meta (not referring to this thread sarcastically, but not excluding it either).

With all these shallow short/micro “blogging” platforms we made a couple of steps back in cultural development. It’s just too much speech to process properly, and most of it is useless if not harmful.

Lots of recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725329

Yes very much. I have the impression that some FAANG type companies have diverted resources/headcount to AI related roles while keeping the job openings around, which maybe means if you apply to a job, and it's not an AI job, you might never hear back. One person who used to work at one of these companies confirmed this to me, that resources have been put on AI and taken away elsewhere. What I'm also concerned about is that the idea is being sold that AI will replace software engineering and of course there are many companies who love that idea and will happily buy into it regardless of whether this will ever happen. This has the effect I think that many people will switch careers and after the AI thing blows over, there will be less talent around, or the talent will be AI focused and there will be a problem to find talent that can get the job done, whatever it is.

I thought I might be, but I try to follow stories on advancement of the state of the art rather than "me too" applications of it. Novel applications are also interesting when breaking new ground. If you remove the money/corporate aspect thus ignoring the X raises $Y for Z stories it reduces a lot of noise.

What I do get tired of seeing are the it's only ML (a bunch of if-then statistics, etc) stories and also some of the "Is AI sentient yet" kinds. The latter stories will be important when non-fringe folks actually believe they are rather than trying to fill news feeds. Stories that try to analyze consciousness of some form and compare biological to machine are very interesting as it's an attempt at expanding our understanding. I suppose learning to skip over the hype is a way to deal with it.

Very much so, people try to sell it like it's a magical solution to all the world problems. Even if it was as amazing as people tout it to be right now (it isn't) it wouldn't make our lives better. Maybe faster, a bit cheaper (for some) but not better in the most fundamental sense. We can do better right now but choose to ignore our most important issues to chase the new shiny thing.

AI R&D definitively has its place but certainly not like this, this feels like just another hype bubble.

A good read explaining some of it: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I have grown to not hate but be really bored about coding and programming. AI promises an extension to my usefulness despite that boredom.

So I'm only excited about it. Traditional programming is the thing I'm really burnt out about.

Yes, very. ML and LLM has its specific uses, but every company is slapping “AI” onto everything and it’s so stupid. Have you heard about the AI rice cooker…?[1]

You might enjoy the talk Adam Conover had with Ed Zitron[2]; I found it quite cathartic.

1: https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/ai-rice-cooke...

2: https://youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA

Not burnt out, but extremely careful with marketing on AI, because this one bad actor, sama, with his series of incidents, could bring down the whole industry down as in the first AI winter. Which did cost me a very good job then.

It's good technology still, but the hype is doing more harm than good and it looks very fragile. I recommended to concentrate on different marketing terms like vision, chatbot, etc.

That's like being burnt out on the airplane hype in 1904. You have several annoying decades in front of you. I'm in slack jawed awe of it and feel grateful to have lived long enough to experience the start of it.

As someone nicely put it: when selling it's AI, when hiring it's ML.

I'm burnt out of calling every new piece of technology that starts to get wide adoption a hype or bubble. Yes, there will be the usual phase of over excitement before it all settles, that we all know is part of human nature, so what? In the Gartner hype cycle modell I'm already in the plateau of productivity with my use of GPTs for code generation, technical troubleshooting and everyday life questions.

Not me. But I do get it, sometimes hearing the grandiose expectations gets to be too much. These days I just tune it out mostly and keep my head down working (on an AI project…)

No! I use it everyday at work.

I hope other people are burned out on it and not using it — I’ll be happy being the only one taking all the benefits :)

I'm not. I haven't tried a single LLM tool and I don't expect to anytime soon.

I’m burnt out by questions like this every other day. People are complaining about trends, like AGI, “I use arch/nix btw”, “written in rust”.

Get on with it. There’s always trends you don’t like. If I felt burnt out when I see a trend I don’t like, I’ll be so burnt that I’m in an urn right now.

Yes and no. Yes, I believe it is overhyped and in many cases it causes more problems than it solves. For instance, it's easier to create content now, but the quality is usually mediocre at best. I think that's because whatever it's used for still depends on humans for its quality. You get average Joe using ai to code or write, the output is still going to be mediocre. It's just gotten easier and faster to produce it. To me that's a net loss. Companies now sprinkling AI features on everything is more likely to make me roll my eyes, it's become a gimmick.

At the same time I do think it's an incredible tool, and I personally do use it, as a sparring partner, to do quick experiments, to explore ideas or technology I don't have experience with. For example, in my current position I found myself constantly hitting limits with excel. AI enabled me to use Python, Pandas, Sklearn and other libraries to great effect. All stuff I didn't have prior experience with. So I understand the excitement.

I didn't know the meaning of burnt out until I saw a fucking toiletries company weasel AI into its advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WZij3xmCA

Like holy fucking cringe, enough.

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AI and VR are both just getting started.

If you aren't at least using AI to generate boiler plate code your already behind.

Of course AI can make mistakes, but it's going to change everything.