I'm also annoyed by the hype. For me, it's a combination of two things:
1. I'm just naturally averse to any sort of hype. Maybe something I should talk to a therapist about because it's only rational to some degree. I've been building software for decades, and almost every hype that came up meant more boring/annoying work for me - usually around resolving misconceptions non-technical people get from the news. Rewarded only by the grim satisfaction that people finally get it a few years delayed ("blockchain technology" is my favourite example here).
2. I can only see the bad LLMs can bring: A further decline of quality in a ton of areas, having to deal with worse writing and user interfaces in my private life, and worse code and tools in my professional life. It's just largely dystopian in my mind, I don't see any benefits. Code writing speed is hardly a bottleneck for the kind of work I do, I actually find it to be a small, particularly satisfying part of it. Is it more fun for a violinist to not touch the instrument and instead just tell a machine what to play? Certainly not for me. Generating elaborate wiki pages and SEO spam? Hell no, it's bad enough without LLM assistance.
The strategy I developed over the years is to learn enough about the hyped thing to feel like I don't miss out on information I need to have in case it comes up, and then to largely ignore it. Things are rarely eaten as hot as they are cooked. Sometimes, I start to get into the hyped thing a little later on the hype cycle, having waited for the early adopters to figure out what it's actually valuable for. At that point I usually am not appalled by it anymore. There's nothing wrong with _not_ being an early adopter of something. And it's also not as if you can do anything to stop it, whatever is gonna happen, happens. All you can control is how you react to that, in what you do, as well as emotionally.
1. I'm just naturally averse to any sort of hype. Maybe something I should talk to a therapist about because it's only rational to some degree. I've been building software for decades, and almost every hype that came up meant more boring/annoying work for me - usually around resolving misconceptions non-technical people get from the news. Rewarded only by the grim satisfaction that people finally get it a few years delayed ("blockchain technology" is my favourite example here).
2. I can only see the bad LLMs can bring: A further decline of quality in a ton of areas, having to deal with worse writing and user interfaces in my private life, and worse code and tools in my professional life. It's just largely dystopian in my mind, I don't see any benefits. Code writing speed is hardly a bottleneck for the kind of work I do, I actually find it to be a small, particularly satisfying part of it. Is it more fun for a violinist to not touch the instrument and instead just tell a machine what to play? Certainly not for me. Generating elaborate wiki pages and SEO spam? Hell no, it's bad enough without LLM assistance.
The strategy I developed over the years is to learn enough about the hyped thing to feel like I don't miss out on information I need to have in case it comes up, and then to largely ignore it. Things are rarely eaten as hot as they are cooked. Sometimes, I start to get into the hyped thing a little later on the hype cycle, having waited for the early adopters to figure out what it's actually valuable for. At that point I usually am not appalled by it anymore. There's nothing wrong with _not_ being an early adopter of something. And it's also not as if you can do anything to stop it, whatever is gonna happen, happens. All you can control is how you react to that, in what you do, as well as emotionally.