Honestly, a bit but only because the hype cycle is louder than the genuinely interesting work.

Like many endeavors, the most vocal in favor or against aren't really doing much. The people actually succeeding with AI probably aren't interested in giving away their secrets.

AI is especially sensitive to this. Unlike coding, where giving away the secret sauce also makes you look smart, divulging AI secrets only demystifies you -- revealing the shriveling man behind the Wizards curtain.

So anyone boasting about AI is likely not doing anything useful with it.

Similar to finance tips, btw.

Kinda tired of being inundated with low quality AI slop absolutely everywhere.

If its becoming just another thing in the toolbox that means its winning. Boring and useful tech stays around.

I remember how annoying Ray 'Nerd Rapture' Kurzweil was twenty years ago with his "Singularity" stuff, and quietly thankful that he isn't anywhere near as in-my-face today as he was back in the day.

As bad as the AI hype wave is now, I can't help but wonder if it could have been even worse.

i am tired of the desparation of the hype machine.

Yes, all this talk about AI is extremely distracting... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LDPDDS3HaGo

Yes!

There are other interesting things in the world today, and HN is overwhelmed with pretend intelligence.

Hype, detractors, ALL OF IT!

Maybe a separate web page or RSS feed could be created that is dedicated to the subject...

Oh great, we're at the stage of constantly talking about it, AND talking about how we're sick of talking about it. Now every article will be as long as before + a prefix paragraph explaining how they know we're all sick of talking about it, but...

My only hope is that it is such a disaster that it is effectively an extinction level event for this current technoscene (along the lines of the Permian–Triassic extinction event and others).

Then we can get back to the unglamorous, boring, thankless task of delivering business value to paying clients, and the public discourse will no longer be polluted by our inane witterings.