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🆕 blog! “This time is different”
3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX.
The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who were pumped for all of that bollocks …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/this-time-is-different/
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@Edent there's one thing that AI will definitely be always useful for. The entire discipline of natural language processing is basically obsolete now — LLMs do an outstanding job converting freeform text, in any language, into machine-readable data adhering to a rigid schema.
They're also not bad for summarization, but that's debatable.
The rest of the hype is totally unfounded. The spreading use of LLMs to generate code will make the already sorry-state software industry even worse.
