[rsynnott]

> On HN, the smart opinion is that it definitely has already made most of us developers obsolete. Reading the comments of any LLM-related posts, it's all talking about how LLMs have already replaced all but the most complex of technical work and "but muh taste & system design" is just sad copium until the next model in a few months is released.

HN is _extremely_ hype-prone. See discussions of NFTs changing the world a few years ago. You can't go on what gets upvoted on HN, because, with the benefit of hindsight, what gets upvoted on HN is usually complete nonsense. Bitcoin, NFTs, metaverses, all were declared world changing by HN, then quietly forgotten about.

(This is not to say that LLMs certainly face the same fate, and indeed I'm fairly sure they're not as useless as NFTs, but "HN is ridiculously excited about something" is not really good evidence for anything.)