I actually love this analogy. People tend to not appreciate just how precise modern manufacturing equipment is.

All of that modern machinery was essentially bootstrapped off a couple of relatively flat rocks. Its going to be interesting to see where this LLM stuff goes when the feedback loop is this quick and so much brainpower is focused on it.

One of my sneaky suspicions is that Facebook/Google/Amazon/Microsoft/etc would have been better off keeping employees on the books if for no other reason than keeping thousands of skilled developers occupied, rather than cutting loose thousands of people during a time of rapid technological progress who now have an axe to grind.