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Very much so, people try to sell it like it's a magical solution to all the world problems. Even if it was as amazing as people tout it to be right now (it isn't) it wouldn't make our lives better. Maybe faster, a bit cheaper (for some) but not better in the most fundamental sense. We can do better right now but choose to ignore our most important issues to chase the new shiny thing.

AI R&D definitively has its place but certainly not like this, this feels like just another hype bubble.

A good read explaining some of it: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/