lateinteraction: everyone is absurdly overhyping an otherwise perfectly good release
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-18
Douwe Kiela (lateinteraction) says that after proudly reposting a release before it had any traction and loving the team, the current wave of hype is "massively and absurdly" overblown for an otherwise perfectly good (even great) release — and urges people to "be calibrated for once."
Related event: Contextual AI Founder Calls Hyped Model Release Overblown(3 posts)→
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