Great point. That is what all the Fortune 500 CEO's are frothing at the mouth about. Having LLM's replace their payroll. So yeah, they deserve to fail.
Whether Trump or the next Democrat president, the US Government isn't going to allow AI to destroy our society. I'm torn with how I feel about this, on one hand, I want free markets, but on the other hand, I don't want our society to crash and burn. It was obvious, this was going to happen sooner or later.
Even if they negotiate a way out of this particular spat, this is just the start of securing this technology in the name of national security. Does this pop the bubble? What happens to the trillions invested in this AI craze? When do we outlaw Chinese models?
Seriously, this movement already had its Marx - Richard Stallman. I think the "leaders" will appear over time, as with any socialist movement, they are naturally bottom up and leaders only appear after demands are formed in the zeitgeist. The (partly successful) socialist novement that brought social democracy to the West during cca 1920s - 1960s didn't really have leaders, it was a collective realization.
No offense, but the sad thing is, everyone and their mother is working on this same problem. I'm also building a harness. It's feeling like, there is no moat, there is no way to get ahead, they will steal your idea one way or another, if you ever make it public.
No offense taken. I am not building it for fame or profit.
I built it because I wanted cursor on my phone because I have two small kids and don’t want to be chained to my desk. And it’s awesome. It’s a full ide with agent chat, terminal and file system running in a remote Linux container. I can review diffs, fully manage git and preview/serve apps. And no one can ever take it away from me :)
I am watching the way things are progressing with the ai api vendors and it feels really clear that depending on them will soon be dangerous. So I an furiously building as much of my own infrastructure to capture some autonomy with these capabilities
When they launched their business model was to be a pure API for intelligence. Then when everyone claimed they were just commodities with no moat and they shifted hard to being the app layer. That was the transition.
They went from selling shovels to all gold prospectors to stealing the information about the location of the gold so they could dig it out first.
We are all stupid enough to keep buying shovels from them because we think their shovels dig gold better and faster.
I've worked with all three of the biggest models and typically have the three of them working together, Gemini is by far the worst of the three. The price hikes will keep me further away from applying them in my day to day operations.
Software will become cheaper to write and more software will be written. A senior will always outcompete a junior when it comes to logical thinking and a true understanding of IT. A programmer will always outcompete a non-programmer when it comes to using AI tools.
Bottom line, if programmers are fucked, so is just about anyone else.
That that's naive. If you want to guess what may happen, look to the rhetoric and language about people now: the homeless, disabled, unemployed, elderly
If enough people have nothing left to lose, the French Revolution will most likely be the outcome. Or a working UBI. If programmers aren't safe, I can't imagine most other professions won't be on the chopping block as well.
Can confirm this with YouTube advertising. When enabled for growth, it's nothing but bot farms. When I reached out to Google about it, they acknowledged the unusual traffic but did nothing about it. They are running a huge fraudulent business.
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