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    Shovel vendors scrambling for solid ground as prospectors start to understand geology.

    …that is, this isn’t yet the end of the AI bubble. It’s just the end of overvaluing hardware because efficiency increased on the software side, there’s still a whole software-side bubble to contend with.

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        Lots of techies loved the internet, built it, and were all early adopters. Lots of normies didn’t see the point.

        With AI it’s pretty much the other way around: CEOs saying “we don’t need programmers, any more”, while people who understand the tech roll their eyes.

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            Oh great you’re one of them. Look I can’t magically infuse tech literacy into you, you’ll have to learn to program and, crucially, understand how much programming is not about giving computers instructions.

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                Especially because programming is quite fucking literally giving computers instructions, despite what you believe keyboard monkeys do. You wanker!

                What? You think “developers” are some kind on mythical beings that possess the mystical ability of speaking to the machines in cryptic tongues?

                First off, you’re contradicting yourself: Is programming about “giving instructions in cryptic languages”, or not?

                Then, no: Developers are mythical beings who possess the magical ability of turning vague gesturing full of internal contradictions, wishful thinking, up to right-out psychotic nonsense dreamt up by some random coke-head in a suit, into hard specifications suitable to then go into algorithm selection and finally into code. Typing shit in a cryptic language is the easy part, also, it’s not cryptic, it’s precise.