The outside world doesn't even care that things work, they care that it looks like it works long enough. Investors don't care that it's snake oil, as long as they're not left holding the bag.

AI is really good at making things that look like they work.

This is a steelman of your argument.

> We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.

Until they go wrong because they are not good inside.

> We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly.

How good something is inside is directly responsible for how well it works. Your customers might not care about the former, but they will care when your cuts to the former impact the latter (and they always do impact it, in the end).

Actually, the outside world is in a constant state of low-grade rage at how poorly software works these days. Slop code will only accelerate this trend.

For the most part, people don’t need a thousand new features; the investment class does. Nobody gets mad at Craigslist.

This is true. I have artist friends that are boycotting any company using AI art for their flyers/ads.

I looked at some examples and couldn't tell the difference.

The outside world itself will stop working if we replace labor with LLMs.

Mass unemployment equals riots equals an end to the status quo.