I love LLMs, I hate hype
The author expresses enthusiasm for AI progress while criticizing the negative hype and fear-mongering surrounding the industry. They argue that AI value is driven by general computing progress rather than the proprietary efforts of frontier labs.
Why it matters
It highlights a growing divide in the tech community between those who embrace AI utility and those who reject the 'existential risk' narrative promoted by major labs.
I think from this blog you may misunderestimate how absolutely giddy I am about AI. I did hacking from 2007-2014, after that my whole career has been devoted to AI. I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs , self driving cars , video generation models , and coding agents . I set up a Linux box with opencode on my local GLM-5.2 last week and wow like just saying install tmux with the geohot configuration works; the Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here!
What I don’t like is two things. One, this constant bullshit about some window closing, or the perpetual underclass, or falling hopelessly behind. This is negative valence hype, not only is it not true, it’s mostly designed to make you feel bad about yourself and move to shitty San Francisco where everything really does suck like how these people claim.
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