AI - Use it, but don't trust it.

Some defend hand-written code, other love AI code generation. Other try to frame the conversation as an adaption/evolution event. Other look at it as another political topic. Let me give you my opinion, the opinion of somebody that loves software, and enjoys making software...

The market forces can't be ignored, adaptation is necessary, I don't think is possible to ignore AI code generation and its implications. Software development was changed forever, and I sort of like it, the ability to understand and do as humans has increased. I surely think this is what a technological and human evolution looks like.

Is AI a tech bubble? I can say that normal people don't use it beyond a "better Google". I see final-consumer adoption there, nowhere else. Companies, sure, they try to use it everywhere, they have to stay vigilant and jump on any trends to stay relevant and competitive, but that's hardly a way to judge the long-term implications of a technology.

Is AI a financial bubble? I believe local AI will become accessible over time, and when that happens a market adjustment will happen. Same hardware is becoming everyday more AI capable.

Is AI a just tool? Is not another tech hammer, is way more complex and with more complex social/human interactions baked into it. No other tool has a baked-in deception mode that optimizes for: looking human, retention, and sounding confident.

Confidence, confidence is a social mechanism/signal, a way to inform other people that you are to be trusted. People fake having confidence so that it can act as a proxy for aptitude/ability/knowledge and get something out of it. Models deceive you, and earn your trust at different level than a classical single-purpose tool ever had.

Is AI capable? It sure is. There is no possible denial. But that's not the real question, isn't it? People try to ask, should I use it? should I rely on it to be able to keep up to not be devour by the evolution of the market? - Companies want to sell you intelligence as an utility, for that you have to give up your capability and then your willingness to use and assert your intellect. Intellect requires the will to use, humans need meaning to use their minds, don't give up that.

Is software dead? Is the internet dead? certainly is transformed, but those questions are phrased to catch your attention more than anything else. Systems transform and evolve over time, that's nature.

But nobody writes software by hand anymore. Software must be dead right? I think that software sucks, it is over-complicated, segmented, and nothing works. But software is not code, is a social interaction encoded into a system. Also is AI, we are encoding and accelerating human interactions.

Meta-systems. Personally, through human-code I'm able to know part of the work history of a person, what other technologies he used in the past, how he used those, what he was thinking, what were his priorities, etc. The code didn't have anything that directly said that, but you could see and understand through it anyways. There is a meta-level human expression to code, as to anything else in this human world. AI-Code has its meta message inside it, invisible but it is there: "trust me, rely on me, depend on me".

I could invent more questions here to answer, but the answer varies greatly from situation to situation. The point of view of a individual, startup, small company or corporation are vastly different, all based on an expression of human intent. Human tools, can't escape our nature, and AI is just a sophisticated and scalable encoding of human incentives and nature.

My opinion after all of this is simple: use AI, scale it, do whatever you find more profitable, play the game, but under no circumstance trust it, verify everything. Your personal incentives and desires may not align with it, by its very nature.