Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

“The pendulum that swung too far toward AI hype is now swinging too far away. Both extremes are wrong.”

Antirez is one of the few engineers who has remained calibrated through the entire AI cycle. The take is the right one. The tools are useful, the marketing is dishonest, and the backlash is now overcorrecting in ways that are about to leave a lot of people behind. Read it for the modeling of how to think about a hyped technology when both the boosters and the haters are mostly performing.