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YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

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317 points laserduck | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 14:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | 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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marcosdumay ◴[16 Nov 24 17:24 UTC] No.42157567[source]▶
If feels like the entire world has gone crazy.

Even the serious idea that the article thinks could work is throwing the unreliable LLMs at verification! If there's any place you can use something that doesn't work most of the time, I guess it's there.

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1. FredPret ◴[16 Nov 24 18:35 UTC] No.42158151[source]▶
This happens all the time.

Once it was spices. Then poppies. Modern art. The .com craze. Those blockchain ape images. Blockchain. Now LLM.

All of these had a bit of true value and a whole load of bullshit. Eventually the bullshit disappears and the core remains, and the world goes nuts about the next thing.

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2. vishnugupta ◴[16 Nov 24 19:15 UTC] No.42158486[source]▶
Exactly. I’ve seen this enough now to appreciate that oft repeated tech adoption curve. It seems like we are in “peak expectations” phase which is immediately followed by the disillusionment and then maturity phase.