AI boosters claim that LLMs are the future of software development. But that could not be further from the truth.
LLMs are the apotheosis of a paradigm 40 years in the making: the tech industry assigns you problems and then sells you the solutions.
But that world is now coming apart at the seams.
The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.
What if the AI excitement IS a bubble and there IS a crash?! Is anyone in government prepared to confront the consequences, not just saving finance as in 2008, but saving the victims and the economy? This from @asad09.bsky.social is essential reading: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
What did the Sweet Potato say when it gained consciousness?
I think therefore I Yam.
Scientists have discovered a new species of potato that has attained consciousness and become self aware.
Silicon Valley calls them meta-taters.
What do you call a gestalt consciousness of plants?
A chive mind.
Surprised no one has made a remake of Toffler’s Future Shock yet
