The hype around AI and agents right now...

The hype around AI and agents right now is getting out of hand. Yes, these technologies enable myriad wonderful new use cases, but LLMs and agents are, at their core, non-deterministic and behave that way. " "" "Aside from chat, where this behavior fits well, building products around these technologies is not a slam dunk. It will take time and effort, and I don't buy the "AI will just figure it out soon" argument either. " "" "I'll be happy to be proven wrong when it happens, and I do believe it will happen, but not in the timeframes the media is currently frothing over. As much as I'd love to be done coding in the next 6-12 months, that's just not going to happen, and that's coming from someone who maximizes his use of agents & LLM-powered-autocompletion when coding. " "" "Coding as a skill looks totally different in the next 5 to 10 years, though!

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