They said the same thing about the loom. "I'm an artist, no machine can replace me!" Now it's all done by machine, and none of us worry about it. We're in the early stages of the same process with AI; history rhyme.
That may be the case some day, but I don't think it's going to happen with LLMs. They get too many things wrong via hallucinations (likely unfixable) and often they can go deep into an (incorrect) rabbit hole burning a ton of tokens at the same time.
Useful tools, but I think the idea that they'll replace programmers is (wishful? eek) thinking.
Yup.. took the loom 200 years, and it won't be overnight for AI either. But it will eat away at the edges, and do the simple things first. It already is, for those who embrace it.
High quality hand made clothes still exist and people do want to pay for them. Mass produced clothing made in sweats shops are what the majority of the people buy because that is where the capitalist companies drove the production.
The loom dropped production costs immensely - even hand-made clothes are done with premade fabrics, they dont do it from scratch.
Mass produced clothing exists in many industrialized countries - typically the premium stuff; the sweatshop stuff is quite cheaper, and customers are happy paying less; its not capitalism, its consumer greed. But nice story.
