alt Hacker NewsThis type of thing so much.
AI is being pushed so much at work right now. For non-dev stuff even. The amount of things that people think are "awesome never seen this" is staggering.
Just because you haven't seen file format X converted to file format Y before and now you asked the LLM to do it and it worked, doesn't mean you needed an LLM for it nor that it's remarkable. The LLM knew how to do it because it learned from a bazillion online sources for deterministic converters that cost nothing (and have open source). But now you're paying, every single time, for a non-deterministic version of it and you find it cool. It's magic ...
But I guess they deserve it.
> It's magic
you'll be surprised with how many people are comfortable attributing something they do not understand to Magic.
more than anything, ai let people who couldn't and wouldn't bother to learn to write simple code, to side step ones who can and build solutions to scratch their own itch. that too faster.
now human behavior kicks in, and they don't want to hand control back into the hands of people who can code to solve problems.
put this together and you have a good model to understand the AI sales pitch... Its magic
like all magic, its but a trick.