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by Laurel1234
23 days ago
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LLMs are genuinely useful tools if used as such and not some magic people replacer. I do wonder if their provided utility will still justify the cost once the bubble pops and frontier models aren't subsidized money furnaces, though. |
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I think we can learn from history about where this is headed. I remember when each developer needed a $600 compiler to write C++. Eventually that industry was replaced by free compilers. Kind of a similar thing going on with frontier models; I really like Fable 5, but if I didn't have any money I'd use GLM 5.2 or something. Since my employer does have money to spend on it, I enjoy the productivity boost (just like Intel's C++ compiler produced faster code than gcc for a while), but you can see the direction things are going. Eventually the moat around Anthropic and OpenAI collapses, and AI coding assistance is something built into every text editor.
There is still probably a lot of upside on betting that some lab produces a model that is light years ahead of what we have today. But I feel less "I'd better start planning for a new career" than I did a year ago.