[picafrost]

So much of society's intellectual talent has been allocated toward software. Many of our smartest are working on ad-tech, surveillance, or squeezing as much attention out of our neighbors as possible.

Maybe the current allocation of technical talent is a market failure and disruption to coding could be a forcing function for reallocation.

[oblio]

Those are business goals that don't just go away because tech changes.

[picafrost]

Of course. But LLMs may subtract the need for top talent to be working on them.

[fritzo]

Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.

[tossandthrow]

Likely, but through regulation, not AI