It's kind of weird to say it's "taken off" recently. Yes what we have today is far better than half a year ago and solving new real use cases, but that was far better with more uses than we had half a year before that, etc, for years now. On their best usecases LLMs were already enormously useful years ago, and it's still very spiky.

As a user of software I see no improvements. What I see is that I need to download software more often, it brings more features I don't need and it has been as buggy as ever (if not more). And I can say that about Operating System I use, social networks, games, etc.

In other words, it's taken a highly enjoyable and lucrative vocation from vast swathes of workers - a lot of which make up this sites audience! - and instead concentrated more productive power in the hands of a few megacorps.

You gave your own example for the doom and gloom.

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