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LLM Inevitabilism

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1612 points SwoopsFromAbove | 1 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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delichon ◴[15 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44567913[source]▶
If in 2009 you claimed that the dominance of the smartphone was inevitable, it would have been because you were using one and understood its power, not because you were reframing away our free choice for some agenda. In 2025 I don't think you can really be taking advantage of AI to do real work and still see its mass adaptation as evitable. It's coming faster and harder than any tech in history. As scary as that is we can't wish it away.
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afavour ◴[15 Jul 25 05:20 UTC] No.44568040[source]▶
Feels somewhat like a self fulfilling prophecy though. Big tech companies jam “AI” in every product crevice they can find… “see how widely it’s used? It’s inevitable!”

I agree that AI is inevitable. But there’s such a level of groupthink about it at the moment that everything is manifested as an agentic text box. I’m looking forward to discovering what comes after everyone moves on from that.

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jowea ◴[15 Jul 25 13:13 UTC] No.44570793[source]▶
Big Tech can jam X everywhere and not get actual adoption though, it's not magic. They can nudge people but can't force them to use it. And yes a lot of AI jammed everywhere is getting the Clippy reaction.
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1. wavemode ◴[15 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44573076[source]▶
The thing a lot of people haven't yet realized is: all those AI features jammed into your consumer products, aren't for you. They're for investors.

We saw the same thing with blockchain. We started seeing the most ridiculous attempts to integrate blockchain, by companies where it didn't even make any sense. But it was all because doing so excited investors and boosted stock prices and valuations, not because consumers wanted it.