“One of the four balloon animals of the AI clownpocalypse” is the best sentence I’ve read all week.
I think this is why the LLM revolution has been so existentially depressing for so many senior engineers - we’ve spent our entire careers fighting for exactly what the author suggests, and we couldn’t make progress against the product and management cabal when code took time and people to write. Now code is “free,” and we’re all being told to just get on the train, don’t worry about the bridge being out, we’ll build a new one when we get there, you see how fast we’re going now?
I think this is why the LLM revolution has been so existentially depressing for so many senior engineers - we’ve spent our entire careers fighting for exactly what the author suggests, and we couldn’t make progress against the product and management cabal when code took time and people to write. Now code is “free,” and we’re all being told to just get on the train, don’t worry about the bridge being out, we’ll build a new one when we get there, you see how fast we’re going now?