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hluska on July 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI coding tools can reduce productivity

I’ve been around tech for a long time. At this point, I’ve lost count of how many hype cycles I’ve seen hit the “hold on, everything sucks” stage. Generative AI is seemingly at the hold on, everything sucks stage and it’s getting repetitive.

CaptainFever on July 11, 2025 | [–]

Trough of Disillusionment (followed by the Slope of Enlightenment and Plateau of Productivity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

bluefirebrand on July 11, 2025 | | [–]

My bold prediction is that the Trough of Disillusionment for LLMs is going to be a very long stretch

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