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I usually ignore these kind of trends. Just meet any required deadlines etc but don't engage too much. The vast majority will just disappear.
Specifically as a software developer I cannot see a good outcome from engaging with this trend either. It's going to go one of two ways.
1: It pans out sooner rather than later that AI wasn't the panacea they thought it was, and it either is forgotten about, or becomes a set of realized tools we use, but don't rely on.
2: They believe it can replace us all, and so they replace us all with freshly graduated vibe "programmers" and I don't have a job anyway.
I don't really see an upside to engaging with this in any kind of long term plan.
My prediction is that it's just the latest buzzword on the pile of buzzwords and by 2028 a new one will pop up and the only time you hear "AI" will be in the line of "Hey, remember when everyone was talking about AI?"
Before AI it was "The Cloud". Before the cloud it was "Virtualization". They're saying all the same things about AI that they said about the cloud and virtualization...
I guess the real money is inventing the new buzzword that sales people can say will make your business faster, more agile, and more efficient. :)
So you're saying AI will make a measurable (arguably net positive) impact and forever change the way we do things in our day to day, just becoming a standard toolset offered by many providers? Because I'd argue that's what virtualization was, as well as the cloud to a lesser extent. Hell, I'd be hard pressed to be convinced on virtualization being a bad thing (not as much the cloud tho, that has some solid negative arguments).
If you're trying to shit talk AI, you'd be better off comparing it to block chain than cloud/virtualization, since the latter two are an integral part of a large amount of the work we do, and the former is mainly for illicit drugs/activities and stealing money.
I think the comparison is apt, it's not that LLM is useless, it's just that, currently, it's insanely overhyped. Just like the .com had irrational companies that evaporated but underlying tech was useful. Just like in-house servers were considered to be dead with everything being cloud hosted, now there's recognition of a trade off. Just like there was pressure to ship everything as an '.ova' and nowadays that's not really done as much.
An appropriately used level of LLM might even be nice, but when it's fuel for the grifters, it is going to be obnoxious.
LLMs may be overhyped, but the point is virtualization was not.