[swiftcoder]

Much like with the whole "web3" crypto craze before it, I think it behooves us to push back pretty loudly on everyone who buys into the grift-of-the-week.

Nobody actually believes OpenAI is giving away billions of dollars in free compute just so we don't have to memorize awk syntax...

[hombre_fatal]

Well, it's not free. You have to provide an API key to iTerm.

[joshstrange]

Calling LLMs a “grift of the week” takes a certain level of obtuseness. LLMs provide value _today_, even if they never got better than what we currently have, or even the open source/weights models we have, they would still be useful. Period.

To compare it to crypto is just silly. Yes they both are over hyped and use GPUs/power but that’s about where the similarities end. Real people (not just techbros speed-running why we have regulations in finance) get value from LLMs today, not some mythical “one day we will all use bitcoin”-bullshit.