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I agree with most of your points but this one

>I find it useful for some coding tasks but think LLMs were overestimated and it will blow up like NFTs

No way. NFTs did not make any headway in "the real world": their value proposition was that their cash value was speculative, like most other Blockchain technologies, and that understandably collapsed quickly and brilliantly. Right now developers are using LLMs and they have real tangible advantages. They are more successful than NFTs already.

I'm a huge AI skeptic and I believe it's difficult to measure their usefulness while we're still in a hype bubble but I am using them every day, they don't write my prod code because they're too unreliable and sloppy, but for one shot scripts <100 lines they have saved me hours, and they've entirely replaced stack overflow for me. If the hype bubble burst today I'd still be using LLMs tomorrow. Cannot say the same for NFTs



LLMs are somewhat useful compared to NFTs and other blockchain bullshit which is nearly completely useless. It will be interesting what happens when the money from the investment bubble dries out and the real costs need to be paid by the users.


Bitcoin has been bootstrapped into usefulness through the durability of the belief many have had in it, especially as people begin to lose confidence in the dollar and US equities.




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