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Yeah I am tired of hearing about it. Can’t wait for the hype cycle to die down.

by mberning 4y ago

qgin 4y ago
You might be in for a bad rest of your life
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  Similar things were said about cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Wishing both you and the original commentor a lovely "rest of your lives" either way.
  - kobalsky 4y ago
    The only time cryptos are mentioned here is when there are bad news, and BTC is doing well at the moment so you won't hear it about for a while, at least until the next bear run.
    - tough 4y ago
      we're still on a bear, btc is doing well only because the global financial system is slowly imploding
      - hammyhavoc 4y ago
        That's the thing. "Well" implies a gain, but how about the utility? Not so well.
    - nozzlegear 4y ago
      That's true now but was not always the case, which just proves hammyhavoc's point. Crypto has certainly gone through its own annoying, breathless hype cycle on HN as well. It wasn't that long ago when half the stories on the front page were "blockchain this" and "blockchain that". Everything built with blockchain was going to solve world hunger and all of our other woes, and if you weren't jumping on the blockchain train you were going to be left behind.
- deleted 4y ago
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- oliveshell 4y ago
  Oh, please. Its not that we don’t wish to ever hear about the technology again. We’re just sick of the current wave of breathless, manic speculation from nincompoops engaged in magical thinking.
  - kobalsky 4y ago
    Yesterday I asked my own computer how to crop a video that was recorded vertically and published in widescreen format and it spew out a ffmpeg command that worked perfectly. To be fair, I would have called that magic a few months ago.
    - reidjs 4y ago
      That's cool, but you could have probably figured out how to do that with a google search as well, albeit not as quickly. So your example speeds up something that was already possible, but doesn't necessarily introduce anything novel.
      - kobalsky 4y ago
        > So your example speeds up something that was already possible, but doesn't necessarily introduce anything novel. yes that's true, but you could say the same thing about a spreadsheet. with the correct tooling this thing will have a serious impact on the productivity of a lot of people.
        reidjs 4y ago
        It may be comparable to the invention of the search engine: instead of looking up stuff in dictionaries and encyclopedias people could find information online way faster. The accuracy of the information back then, however, was not as great as it is nowadays. For a long time teachers told kids not to trust anything they read on Wikipedia because “anyone can edit it” so it was best to verify information with another source. Probably still a good idea to do that. IMO what makes GPT even cooler than a search engine or online forums is you don’t have to wait for a human to respond to your highly technical or niche questions, in some cases GPT can just generate an accurate response to your prompt on the fly. exciting stuff
ipaddr 4y ago
Cold Fusion, 3d printing, haskel, lisp and anti php articles to the rescue.

Yeah I am tired of hearing about it. Can’t wait for the hype cycle to die down.

qgin 4y ago

You might be in for a bad rest of your life

hammyhavoc 4y ago
Similar things were said about cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Wishing both you and the original commentor a lovely "rest of your lives" either way.
- kobalsky 4y ago
  The only time cryptos are mentioned here is when there are bad news, and BTC is doing well at the moment so you won't hear it about for a while, at least until the next bear run.
  - tough 4y ago
    we're still on a bear, btc is doing well only because the global financial system is slowly imploding
    - hammyhavoc 4y ago
      That's the thing. "Well" implies a gain, but how about the utility? Not so well.
  - nozzlegear 4y ago
    That's true now but was not always the case, which just proves hammyhavoc's point. Crypto has certainly gone through its own annoying, breathless hype cycle on HN as well. It wasn't that long ago when half the stories on the front page were "blockchain this" and "blockchain that". Everything built with blockchain was going to solve world hunger and all of our other woes, and if you weren't jumping on the blockchain train you were going to be left behind.
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oliveshell 4y ago
Oh, please. Its not that we don’t wish to ever hear about the technology again. We’re just sick of the current wave of breathless, manic speculation from nincompoops engaged in magical thinking.
- kobalsky 4y ago
  Yesterday I asked my own computer how to crop a video that was recorded vertically and published in widescreen format and it spew out a ffmpeg command that worked perfectly. To be fair, I would have called that magic a few months ago.
  - reidjs 4y ago
    That's cool, but you could have probably figured out how to do that with a google search as well, albeit not as quickly. So your example speeds up something that was already possible, but doesn't necessarily introduce anything novel.
    - kobalsky 4y ago
      > So your example speeds up something that was already possible, but doesn't necessarily introduce anything novel. yes that's true, but you could say the same thing about a spreadsheet. with the correct tooling this thing will have a serious impact on the productivity of a lot of people.
      - reidjs 4y ago
        It may be comparable to the invention of the search engine: instead of looking up stuff in dictionaries and encyclopedias people could find information online way faster. The accuracy of the information back then, however, was not as great as it is nowadays. For a long time teachers told kids not to trust anything they read on Wikipedia because “anyone can edit it” so it was best to verify information with another source. Probably still a good idea to do that. IMO what makes GPT even cooler than a search engine or online forums is you don’t have to wait for a human to respond to your highly technical or niche questions, in some cases GPT can just generate an accurate response to your prompt on the fly. exciting stuff

ipaddr 4y ago

Cold Fusion, 3d printing, haskel, lisp and anti php articles to the rescue.