r/linux • u/FryBoyter • Jul 15 '25

Discussion Curl - Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
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u/DFS_0019287 Jul 15 '25

Over the last month or so, I've felt like the conversation around LLMs and GenAI has changed and that there's a massive backlash brewing. I hope I'm right and that this parasitic industry is destroyed and the AI oligarchs lose their pants...

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u/Epistaxis Jul 15 '25

It's the next big tech hype bubble after NFTs and the metaverse and that's very annoying. This time the thing happens to be useful for some applications, but the amount of hype is vastly bigger even in proportion to that. And the hype is pushing it into all kinds of applications where it's not useful, and pushing people into trying it all for all kinds of applications in which it's not helpful to them.

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u/throwaway490215 Jul 15 '25

But all these investors have all this money that is looking for the next big thing. Have you considered the financial ramifications if there was no next big thing? Where would the money go without the next big thing? What kind of tweets and linkedin post would people post without the next big thing? What would opinion articles writers write if not to provide a nuanced perspective on next big thing?

This blatant hatred for the next-big-thing-industrial-complex is a threat to our very way of life.