Eric S. Raymond (yes, that ESR; insert long-winded DonHopkins rant, extensively cross-referenced to his own USENET and UNIX-HATERS mailing list postings, about what a horrible person "Eric the Flute" is) reports a shortening of time to implement his latest project from weeks to hours. He says the advantages of LLMs in the programming space are yet to truly unfold, because they not only let you do things faster, they let you try things you wouldn't have started otherwise because it'd be too much of a time/effort commitment.

Assuming these claims are even partially true, we'd be stupid—at the personal and societal level—not to avail ourselves of these tools and reap the productivity gains. So I don't see AI going away any time soon. Nor will it be a passing fad like Krugman assumed the internet would be. We'd have to course-correct on its usage, but it truly is a game changer.