I love LLMs, I hate hype

George Hotz is excited about GPT-5.6, GLM-5.2, and coding agents, but calls out two things he hates: negative-valence hype about closing windows and perpetual underclasses, and the strawman jump from 'fancy autocomplete' to 'owning the whole light cone.' He argues AI progress is mostly Moore's law and commoditization, not frontier-lab magic, and that anti-open-source arguments are really about fear of commodification. He also walks back his earlier dismissal of models for programming—he's getting better at using them—but warns they can increase cognitive fatigue and that vibe-coded stuff is still slop.

Why it matters: George Hotz names and shames two hype patterns — fear-based negative valence and the 'own the whole light cone' leap — while walking back his earlier coding skepticism with a concrete GLM-5.2 + opencode example. Sharp, quotable, and backed by a real experiment, but it's ultima...