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burnte | 9 days ago

> There is still unlimited AI hype in the market.

I've observed a very different state. From what I've seen the sky-high expectations of AI have come down quite a lot.

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Stromgren|9 days ago

It depends where I look. Among colleagues and tech-native friends, I feel like there’s healthy skepticism as well as the excitement about new tech. On the other hand, all the investment podcasts that I’ve been following for years are nothing but ignorant AI hype and reciting articles about how all the jobs are about to disappear. I guess the people who doesn’t make firsthand experiences are not leaving the hype yet.

zeeveener|9 days ago

Both groups will operate on a wide spectrum, but if we're already generalizing...

Perhaps there's a matter of competing priorities?

Programmers are usually quite cynical overall, but in this case I see it as a "My CEO is telling me _out loud_ that they want to replace me, so why would I help them speed up that process?"

Investors likely want what they're invested in to appreciate, so I imagine they're likely over-leveraged and are doing what they can to get their bag.

chasd00|9 days ago

> sky-high expectations of AI have come down quite a lot.

they hype for AGI has certainly deflated, i haven't heard anything about that being right around the corner and the implications in a while now. The hype and doom now seems to be coming from software devs only, the front page news articles about AGI have pretty much stopped for me.

/"front page news" to me is the google news, US, Business, and Technology tabs

nolok|9 days ago

I agree, but I still think is overall point is correct: they need to do it now while it's still smoking hot