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It's powerful, and very useful in specific situations.
It's not the second coming of jesus christ.
There is no preparing for that.
I doubt we get there to be honest, they all have wealth and power because there are consumers with money. No more consumers, no more wealth and power.
If I wanted the thoughts of an LLM I have access to 10 different ones right now and I can ask to get instant answers and dig deeper where I need to.
Using AI for this sort of content is like sitting on the toilet backwards. No one is stopping you, but there is nothing gained, you're just doing it wrong and it's obvious to everyone.
Can an accountant make a CRM in a weekend? Sure.
Will it be there next week? Maybe, probably not.
Building software was never, not even once, about writing code. That’s easy, literally anyone can do it.
It’s about building something that lasts beyond needing to be completely refactored.
This either calls their bluff, or more likely, leads the system to break over time, so that your boss comes to understand that an LLM is not a human developer.
The US is in for a hard couple decades ahead given they aren't leading innovation, manufacturing, finance, geopolitics, and even their military power is now in question.
At least they owned the libs.
Economic and financial ripple effects would be huge aside from the obvious:
- reduction in electricity usage
- OpenAI / Anthropic are dead in the water unless they start to license their models to fabs.
- Every single one of those GPUs that all of those massive data centers contain become paperweights.
Once they are, they all need to be more and more profitable.
Finally when it’s no longer profitable fire half the people and strip it for parts.
They’re already dead, they just don’t know it yet.
Consuming radium and using uranium glass, that’s what we’re doing.
The problem is that it doesn't fit the sales pitch of LLMs and agents - humanlike or better, repeatably, 24/7, for a fraction of the price, you just need to make sure that you give it all the rules.
Unfortunately we can't really have a meaningful conversation until the money vampires have left so we will need to reschedule this until after the bubble.