i guess it's time to taste a bit of our own medecine.
OP, I feel you-I had a similar response to this clearly orchestrated PR campaign. OpenAI really loves that people think that it can replace the entire tech industry with an API. It would mean they are the most valuable company ever to exist.
Personally, I’ve been through so many hype waves of “this will take our jobs!!!1” I’m a bit inured to the whole thing. My personal belief is that software development will be the last one to go, the ones to turn out the lights. And we should be grateful that our jobs go away. Let’s go drink wine and eat cheese in the forest, dancing under a moonlit sky.
My advice is to get offline, talk to a loved one, pet a dog, go look at art, meditate, basically anything that doesn’t involve a screen.
And so will ours.
There are days where I am able to convince myself that this will go the way of the self-driving cars hype-cycle but it is becoming more and more difficult.
I have a genuine fear for my livelihood, career, and mental health if this is capable of what people think it will be capable of in a few years.
I think I might take another commenters advice and disconnect from this hype-cycle until it "hopefully" dies down. As they say ignorance is bliss.
These headlines are killing me inside. I wish I could more easily discriminate between the hyperbole and the legitimate. Maybe after some time this will be saner to me.
Please stop the headlines.