I love LLMs, I hate hype
Good counterweight to both boosterism and reflexive dismissal, especially the claim that AI value creation is real while value capture by frontier labs is much less certain.
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What it is: X post from the geohot archive linking George Hotz’s blog post "I love LLMs, I hate hype"
Gist: Hotz argues for a strongly pro-AI but anti-hype position: LLMs, coding agents, and related tools are genuinely useful, but a lot of frontier-lab rhetoric is status theater, fear marketing, and exaggerated capture claims. His practical middle position is that programming is changing, models are useful, and they can boost productivity, but vibe-coded slop is still slop and the value created by AI will likely diffuse more broadly than frontier labs imply.
Newsletter angle: Good counterweight to both boosterism and reflexive dismissal, especially the claim that AI value creation is real while value capture by frontier labs is much less certain.