I see no reason to believe the extraordinary progress we've seen recently will stop or even slow down. Personally, I've benefited so much from AI that it feels almost alien to hear people downplaying it. Given the excitement in the field and the sheer number of talented individuals actively pushing it forward, I'm quite optimistic that progress will continue, if not accelerate.
If LLM's are bumpers on a bowling lane, HN is a forum of pro bowlers.
Bumpers are not gonna make you a pro bowler. You aren't going to be hitting tons of strikes. Most pro bowlers won't notice any help from bumpers, except in some edge cases.
If you are an average joe however, and you need to knock over pins with some level of consistency, then those bumpers are a total revolution.
I hear you, I feel constantly bewildered by comments like "LLMs haven't changed really since GPT3.5.", I mean really? It went from an exciting novelty to a core pillar of my daily work, it's allowed me and my entire (granted , quote senior) org to be incredibly more productive and creative with our solutions.
And the I stumble across a comment where some LLM hallucinated a library that means clearly AI is useless.
