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Generative AI Hype Peaking


I have been a skeptic of some of the more breathless claims made for Generative AI since at least October 2023, when I participated in . Specifically, I hav...

In customer support, the early and often routine steps of a call tree can now be handled by chatbots in many instances, with only exceptional cases escalated to human agents. These chatbots generally save time with prompts like "write a TypeScript type declaration for objects that look like this", "convert this function from Python to Javascript", "provide me with a list of the scientific names of bird species mentioned directly or indirectly in this essay". We may look back in a decade and lament how self-serving and short-sighted employers stopped hiring less experienced workers, denied them the opportunity to learn by doing, and thereby limited the future supply of experience developers.

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