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by kogasa240p 236 days ago
IMO it's an economic problem (GDP must always rise because reasons) and the hedonic treadmill at play. I would even argue against the complexity point and rather point to overengineering being the root cause; an example would be using a robot arm to automate a cup of coffee instead of using existing vending machines for that purpose.

> potentially your own skills stagnate as you rely on LLMs more and more.

There were some papers from microsoft that highlighted this point https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...