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I vividly remember people saying that on this very forum when the topic was Crypto, the last "Make NVIDIA's stock and the market soar" technology was the darlin

I vividly remember people saying that on this very forum when the topic was Crypto, the last "Make NVIDIA's stock and the market soar" technology was the darling. Proof of Work will give way to Proof of Stake, or some other thing will happen, trust us, the tech is just so good and useful! What makes this different? What do we actually have, stripping away all of the "it will be this someday" thinking? Pretty good chat bots, ok summarizers, things that can messily and somewhat unpredictably code at a low level, and worst of all, things that sometimes just make up what they're saying or otherwise fail in harmful ways. Then compare that to the cost to run these mediocre miracles.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> What do we actually have, stripping away all of the "it will be this someday" thinking? I can speak to a few restaurant owners who no longer need devs because an LLM can keep their website menu up to date. (Bonus: it’s now just a PDF.) That’s a tangible productivity change. Granted, it’s on par with crypto’s remittance-efficiency pitch. But unlike crypto, these advantages are growing. Speaking personally, Kagi’s AI search is far superior to a list of links in most cases.