I'd argue that expressing contrarian sentiment can be substantive. Otherwise this would be an echo-chamber of agreement.

> it just seems to be an AI optimism word salad

Maybe it was missed, but in the beginning he said he was told the audience are mostly students about to enter the industry, so I feel like a lot of the talk is just establishing vocabulary, basic information about what LLMs are, analogies to get people to wrap their head around where in the workflow they can fit, and so on.

So while most of it seems obvious or relatively abstract, I think that's because of the target audience of the talk. I had that lens while watching the talk and while I cannot say my worldview has done a large change because of it, I understand it could be valuable to newer members of the ecosystem.

> Yeah, not sure I ever saw anything similar on HN before, feels very odd.

What exactly have you been seeing here on HN? I've been reading through most of the comments in this submission, since it was submitted yesterday, and none of it seems to be "fanboying" (maybe I misunderstand the term?) but discussions about where LLMs fit in the software development workflow.

Some people find some parts interesting, others obvious, others think he's selling something, others find the analogies lacking, but I've seen no "fanboy" comments like what parent seemed to exclusively see here.

It's been a multi-day like conversation where multiple people are trying to obtain the transcripts, publish the text as gospel, and now the video. Like, yes thank you but, holy shit.