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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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321 points laserduck | 3 comments | 16 Nov 24 14:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fsndz ◴[16 Nov 24 17:05 UTC] No.42157451[source]▶
They want to throw LLMs at everything even if it does not make sense. Same is true for all the AI agent craze: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-machine-learning/langchains-s...
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1. wslh ◴[16 Nov 24 17:52 UTC] No.42157763[source]▶
This makes complete sense from an investor’s perspective, as it increases the chances of a successful exit. While we focus on the technical merits or critique here on HN/YC, investors are playing a completely different game.

To be a bit acerbic, and inspired by Arthur C. Clarke, I might say: "Any sufficiently complex business could be indistinguishable from Theranos".

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2. spencerchubb ◴[16 Nov 24 18:52 UTC] No.42158290[source]▶
Theranos was not a "complex business". It was deliberate fraud and deception, and investors that were just gullible. The investors should have demanded to see concrete results
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3. wslh ◴[16 Nov 24 20:07 UTC] No.42158856[source]▶
I expected you to take this with a grain of salt but also to read between the lines: while some projects involve deliberate fraud, others may simply lack coherence and inadvertently follow the principles of the greater fool theory [1]. The use of ambiguous or indistinguishable language often blurs the distinction, making it harder to differentiate outright deception from an unsound business model.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory