I think a lot of the hype has to do with the fact that since English has now become a programming language, everybody can theorize about what might be possible

I think a lot of the hype has to do with the fact that since English has now become a programming language, everybody can theorize about what might be possible without any other programming or mathematical knowledge. This naturally results in a lot of noise, as random ideas by laymen and genuinely great, currently possible ideas now have the exact same form and even language. To outsiders, a good prompt might appear like it is good feasible idea. Only with background knowledge can you judge if an idea is currently feasible or if it will likely become feasible soon. Still I think instead of getting tired of it being in the public spotlight now, it makes sense to just upgrade your inner filters just like we unconsciously ignore other noise as it is much more than hype. As Karpathy said, it will eat through both traditional software and neural networks. Imagine when he introduced the term software 2.0 [1] and someone kept doing everything in C++ as they didn't want to "buy into the hype". On a side note: I really like Karpathy’s evolving software concept, especially since these categories weren’t just invented now to explain genAI's place. Rather, genAI has now been assigned as software 3.0, when his distinction between software 2.0 and software 1.0 was done already in 2017 1: https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35 https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35