[rhacker]

Please let LLMs become the "next blockchain" (in terms of keeping our jobs). First off, yes blockchain was just horrible. I think generative AI is actually worth the time and energy because it's actually extremely useful. It's capable of all the things we wanted to program all these years.

Secondly - its probably the one thing keeping the lights on right now. If nothing else, AI/GPT is going to be "powering" the digital economy for the next few years.

Yes we'll all be writing apps that simply ordering, replace phone prompts (have you ordered from Applebees recently? - think that but way more accurate), generate splash pages, parse menus, parse _flat_ PDFs, make appointments, reservations, book travel (I mean just say where you want to go and uber->flight->uber without trying to work a UI, and as odd as it sounds a generative LLM can actually realize a long layover automatically and try to avoid it - simply because its coded in our language!). What was my last RBC count? (because my lab results are in a PDF on my desktop) This is a list I thought of in 4 minutes. What will millions of devs think of?

So yes, I absolutely want to keep this gravy train rolling. If we stopped, the economy would absolutely break right now.

[jszymborski]

If the economy is being propped up by LLMs, I want this bubble to burst now and not in 5 years when I can't turn off my computer without prompt engineering a suitably precise goodbye.

[lispisok]

This might be the best take I've seen so far and I cant believe I didnt think of it considering my job is frequently integrating AI into production software. The more things AI has been able to do the more things we integrate it into which has resulted in more work for software engineers. People are gonna want gpt features in everything and we'll be there to add it, probably assisted by a gpt programming assistant.

[rhacker]

you get it.

[jackblemming]

>So yes, I absolutely want to keep this gravy train rolling. If we stopped, the economy would absolutely break right now.

I see humans are still #1 at hallucinating.

[rhacker]

Nothing useful, just an insult. ok. Can we talk to each other like we're friends or co-workers at least?