it makes for a very good narrative to spin at investors

Particularly for the investors in AI companies. AI is useful. I use it a lot, but all of this shit they put out about what if AI’s take over the world or how we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with 90% unemployment is science-fiction marketing.

It’s not going to take over the world. It’s not going to put artists out of work—not once consumers take in the AI-generated results.

It’s sure as fuck not putting software devs out of work on any kind of scale. It makes me a bit more productive, but not enough to replace a productive co-worker.

On the other hand, I’ve had team members who would boost overall team productivity by getting fired before LLMs.