alt Hacker NewsLol your argument is the same as programmers who complain about Javascript and internet browsers being the most common interface for all solutions on a computer
You guys dont understand that the Lowest common denominator ALWAYS wins - its why excel is the linga franca for most companies
LLMS and AI coding are the new javascript easy way to build amazing things and that trumps the tool specializers
Years of Big Data and Data Engineers building fit for purpose ML pipelines expensively working in a shadowy corner of the company have been replaced by the PM vibe coding a tool to categorize his emails by relevance
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Again - you are right, but it still doesn't refute the grandparent's claim that today's AI is lazy, wasteful and marketing-driven. There is room to improve, and if US labs don't take the initiative then Chinese ones will.
There's no need for black and white thinking. Javascript and the internet browser are the most common interface sure, but there's still room for specialised desktop software, especially those that require serious performance like anything to do with 3d graphics or real-time audio.
But also, frontier LLMs are enormously expensive and slow. Using Astra for things like simple text classification is not going to scale, and you're likely to end up in the same boat as those people who saw their Vercel bill shoot up to $96k/week when their site got traction, if not worse.