[TeMPOraL]

The argument is stochastic. Maybe this joke will get ignored, but then we could've had the same conversation few years ago about "prompt engineering" becoming a job, and here we are.

Or about launching a Docker container implementing a single, short-lived CLI command.

Or about all the other countless examples of ridiculously complicated and/or wasteful solutions to simple problems that become industry standards simply because they make it easier to do something quickly - all of them discussed/criticized regularly here and elsewhere, yet continuing to gain adoption.

Nah, our industry values development velocity much more than correctness, performance, ergonomics, or any kind of engineering or common sense.

[naasking]

> Maybe this joke will get ignored, but then we could've had the same conversation few years ago about "prompt engineering" becoming a job, and here we are.

The joke is on all of us if we only treat this as a joke. Rails pioneered simple command line templates and convention over configuration, and it took over the world for awhile.

An AI as backend is the logical conclusion of that same trend.