Just to clarify, I'm not a member of that "we".

And that's fine, it's your choice. But everything, driven by multiple forces (from hype, to marketing, to real progress, to early adopters) is pointing to that future.

Yes, another web3, crypto and nft "inevitable" futures. Just give Sama a couple more trillion and AGI is juuuust behind the corner.

It's a fact models aren't getting as cost efficient nor better with the same rate that the costs increases of training and running them. It's also a fact that they are so unprofitable that Anthropic feels like they gotta rug-pull your Claude tokens (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598254#44602695) without telling you, let's just ignore those facts and fanboy with wide-closed about that future.

A future framed as "inevitable" by a bunch of people whose job/wealth depends on framing it as such. Nah, hard pass.

> A future framed as "inevitable" by a bunch of people whose job/wealth depends on framing it as such. Nah, hard pass.

I agree with you! I'm not saying that I like it; this is the perfect example of turbo capitalism applied to innovation.

I also like to code and to build software, and the joy that comes from the act of creation. Only, I'm quite sure it's not going to last.