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 there are a bunch of people who are treating LLMs like life-changing god tech that will replace all human labor, for the better, which it's not, and then a bunch of people who try to pretend that the leaps-and-bounds improvements in technological capabilities we've seen over the past few years are nothing more than stupid meaningless cut-and-paste-from-human-work line noise, which is also pretty dumb 
 like, I was never bullish on blockchain tech because, despite admitting it was kind of neat as a technology, no matter how hard I thought about it I couldn't imagine a use case for it that wasn't pants-on-head insane, but if you can't think of 10 useful things you can do with a simple conversational AI at the level of ChatGPT, you are not trying hard enough