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OpenAI has been the weakest financial link for a while. Once it falls though... the whole thing implodes.
Its difficult to know what it'll look like on the "other side" of the bubble popping. It'll be very bad though. Maybe afterward we'll be able to heal. Better be ready to fight... or hunker down.
I don't see the bubble popping at all.
As a software engineer at a big tech org, there's no way we'll ever go back to the world before LLMs. It's just too good to ignore. Does it replace software engineers? No, not all of them, but some. What previously required 70 engineers might now require 60. Five years from now, you might get by on even fewer engineers.
What could cause the bubble to pop? We're rolling out AI code at scale, and we're not seeing an increase in incidents or key metrics going down. Instead, we are shipping more and faster.
So maybe it's too expensive? This could be the case, but even so, it's just a matter of time before the cost goes down or a company figures out a workflow to use tokens more conservatively.
Of course you're seeing nothing but good reports and increasing numbers. That's what bubbles are. Nothing in reality is as good as they're making the AI market look. It's all wash trading. No one is actually using these products so there won't be much complaints or bug reports will there? Yeah it must look really good from the inside looking out.
The reality is that real people hate your shitty broken AI products and want nothing to do with them.
I get the AI hate around art. But it's quite a naïve (and frankly shows just how little you understand about AI) view to talk about broken AI products because I use AI to write some unit tests for me.
I won't go into details but pretty sure you use our product every day without reflecting over whether the code was written with the help of AI or not.
Art is one thing and I agree. But you make it sound like you'd hate mathematicians who decided to use calculators, or hated programmers who used the first programming languages. Real programs are built with machine code!!