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“All the smart kids of the Bay Area want to work on AI,” Operative word here is "kids", and from what I can tell they're not even the smart ones, just the ones

• hobs 1y ago
  You could have said that with any previous investment cycle and the people applying and being accepted to Ycom. Its a thing for generating money not great code or w/e.
  • badsectoracula 1y ago
    FWIW i think that AI (or at least the LLM and some of the other neural network based stuff) can be useful for some stuff and interesting from a technical perspective for many people. Personally i find 99.999% of AI to be way WAY overhyped and i do not really care about the commercial side of it, but at the same time i have found some neat uses for (local) LLMs and i do find the tech behind it interesting (and experimented a bit with it, at least whatever i can do on my own computer). And on that topic, WRT Hacker News, personally i find someone running GPT2 on their 90s Silicon Graphics retro workstation much more interesting than yet another topic on how AI is eating everything :-P.
    • Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
      I do think that another topic on how AI is eating everything could be nice given how nobody is still believing it and somebody had shared the list of YC companies with AI and you had to see how long the list was and how unimaginative it was, to me it felt Like X but AI, Y but AI.... You yourself say that AI is overhyped and that overhype has formed into a bubble of sorts which has eaten Y combinator. Also I probably don't understand how your point is relevant to the parent comment if I am honest or maybe I am not finding the relevance in which case feel free to explain it so that I learn something new
• kordlessagain 1y ago
  Yup. They couldn't devops/mlops their way out of a paper bag if they had to.
  • hackernewds 1y ago
    you could say the barrier of entry to tech has a new low
• gchamonlive 1y ago
  I'd be interested in demographic information about devs working on AI that'd back this claim.
• dylan604 1y ago
  It's the same thing as kids that say they want to be a star athlete, rock star, influencer, or pro gamer. It's just something they are interested in that they think won't take a lot of work to be paid well. Hype train moves a lot of mass
  • psunavy03 1y ago
    There's always the illusion of a quick and easy path to being rich. But the only one of those that really exists is winning the birth lottery and inheriting. All else is a combination of luck, skill, and grit, because for every rock star, star athlete, and successful influencer, there are tens or hundreds of thousands who aren't famous because they didn't win that game.
• 512 1y ago
  The smart kids might be happy to work on model interpretability research at Anthropic. But 90% of AI companies are ChatGPT wrappers which don't sound particularly fun.
  • paxys 1y ago
    The vast majority of engineers out there don't have the skills to work in core AI development, so the only option for "working in AI" is building one of these API wrappers.
    • asveikau 1y ago
      The vast majority of engineers don't have access to the machine resources either.
• pavlov 1y ago
  In 2021 they all wanted to work in crypto / "web3".
• nartho 1y ago
  Forgive my ignorance, I'm just a mid-tier dev, but isn't AI pretty much PhD with multiple publications territory at this point ? I'm not talking about writing wrappers around ChatGPT but working at OpenAI or Anthropic