[tomaytotomato]

There's always been absurdity though, right?

These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010:

- 4GL business languages making developers redundant

- Big data

- Cloud computing

- DevOps

- LLMs

For those about to quit, I salute you.

[ethanwillis]

Definitely has always been some absurdity and I think there always will be. I think it only varies in the degree!

[jghn]

I started my career in the mid-90s and 4GLs making all of us obsolete was already a thing by then!

[schnevets]

I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.

[QuiEgo]

I feel like it was the dot com boom. :s/"Make everything online"/"Make everything use AI"/g

In a similar story, AI makes sense for some stuff but not other stuff. The stuff where it does not make sense for is gonna do bad when the bubble pops.

[AnimalMuppet]

Heh. Back in the 1970s, AD/Cycle was The Big New Thing that was going to make everything else obsolete. Fortunately, that was just a bit before I started, so I never had to worry about it, because it never did much of anything.