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Toutouxctoday at 4:39 PM1 replyview on HN

This kind of turbo confident naivety is quite common among software engineers.

I know people preaching about LLMs being the Next Industrial Revolution, who couldn’t place the industrial revolution in the correct century.

I have people at work talking about jobs and technologies getting replaced by AI who don’t understand how a lawn mower works, who don’t know who Lenin was or what a differential equation is, because they’ve simply been writing JavaScipt since high school.


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ducheftoday at 5:42 PM

The word you're looking for is hubris and it has been endemic amongst some groups of software engineers for 25 years.