AI slop and generational optimism
I tend to be quite optimistic about AI which I've written about before on this site. It's hard to know how much is wishful thinking--is it just because I'm lazy and kinda dislike programming, especially tedious debugging?
Many of my programmer friends have been highly skeptical of the claims that AI is going to start chipping away at the tech sector. On the other hand, it seems like everyone has incorporated AI into at least some of their workflow.
Ultimately, this is not a cat that is going to go back in the bag. For better or for worse, we have this technology now.