This is what happens when you put a guy that fixed bread prices in charge of transportation.
The cynical part of me thinks that this will only even be imaginable once tech properly implodes. I firmly believe that day is coming as the free money dries up, but even then Silicon Valley ideology is so ingrained that I can’t really see it happening, in the Bay Area at least. The mixture of feeling invincible and “fuck you got mine” is a helluva drug.
AI is going to absolutely decimate tech, and quickly, too. This is just the beginning of the mass layoffs, in fact I’d wager that the whole looming recession has been contrived to give big tech companies cover to eliminate positions that will be replaced by AI.
AI won’t disrupt programming anytime soon. Computer nerds are regtettably necessary and the big brain stuff they do is painfully fiddly and brittle: an AI that is 99% correct will build 100% broken software and won’t be able to fix or adapt to problems as they arise. At least, for now.
Programmers will get fired because cheap credit is going away and you cannot employ half your workforce on ridiculous bazinga moonshots without risking profitability.
