The case against conversational interfaces

There have abeen a few of these posts on HN redcently - people who claim that AI/LLM are just some sort of passing fad or of no value or less value than people are saying anyway.

People who write these posts want to elevate their self value by nay-saying what is popular. I don't understand the psychology but it seems like that sort of pattern to me.

It takes a deliberate blindness to say that AI/LLMs are just some sort of thing that has popped up every few years and this is the same as them and it will fade away. Why would someone choose to be so blind and dismissive of something obviously fundamentally world changing? Again - it's the instinct to knock down the tall poppy and therefore prove that you have some sort of strength/value.

I have to suspect that your post is based on assumptions from the (somewhat misleading) post title, rather than from reading the article content.

The following is a direct quite from the article:

"None of this is to say that LLMs aren’t great. I love LLMs. I use them all the time. In fact, I wrote this very essay with the help of an LLM."