And it only takes one or two breakout products to create a buzz around a platform or method in our world nowadays.
People are so invested in this bubble they have to believe it will not burst at all costs.
If this works as well as the evangelists say, they'll all soon be millionaires, right? Everyone is 10x more productive! I'll be waiting... seated.
The good part about this is that if it does indeed get as good as they claim, anyone will be able to get the same benefits. If it doesn't, I'll be around to fix all the garbage code vomited out of LLMs.
If this works—even remotely—this will devastate upcoming entry level software engineering vocations and no longer will we have an army of bright people choosing that vocation. You will still need the upper class SWEs to manage and refine what the AI produces. However at that point AI will need to improve beyond the need for the upper class because you have dried up your engineering well. So what I see is an eventual technological stagnation…or shitification brought about by AI.
It's likely not only in tech, even. We see how blatantly students are getting their degrees and bragging about having ChatGPT do all of their assignments. These folks won't start their careers and suddenly study to get good at their jobs, they'll only function if they have these tools. This is the master move from the AI pushers. They've successfully created a real dependency for millions.
Imagine the next generation of doctors that don't know anything about medicine without ChatGPT at their side. What a nightmare.
