Simon, this HN post didn't need to be about Gen AI.
This thing is really inescapable those days.
Parallel thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311484#47312829 - "I've always been fascinated by this, but I have never known what it would be useful for."
I should have replied there instead, my mistake.
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I don't know man, I didn't see anyone say "this post didn't need to be about <random topic>", HN has just become allergic to LLMs lately.
I'm excited about them and I think discussion on how to combine two exciting technologies are exactly what I'd like to see here.
You haven't been around here in the Blockchain/NFT/Smart Contract dark ages, have you?
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Has there ever been any other topic that was not only the subject of the majority of submissions, but also had a subset of users repeatedly butting into completely unrelated discussions to go "b-but what about <thing>? we need to talk about <thing> here too! how can I relate this to <thing>? look at my <thing> product!"?
You can't just roll in to a random post to tell people about your revolutionary new AI agent for the 50th time this week and expect them not to be at least mildly annoyed.
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