alt Hacker NewsI use AI tools daily and find them useful, but I’ve pretty much checked out from following the news about them.
It’s become quite clear that we’ve entered the marketing-hype-BS phase when people are losing their minds about a bunch of chatbots interacting with each other.
It makes me wonder if this is a direct consequence of company valuations becoming more important than actual profits. Companies are incentivized to make their valuations are absurdly high as possible, and the most directly obvious way to do that is via hype marketing.
It's good to keep in mind that the agentic loop, what you're using AI tools with daily is essentially that, too.
The tooling just hide the interactions and back and forth nowadays.
So if you think you're getting value out of any ai tooling, you're essentially admitting a contradiction with what you're dismissing here via
> a bunch of chatbots interacting with each other.
Just something to think about, I don't have a strong opinion on the matter