Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.

A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.

And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.

This is a post about LLM-generated code.

@inthehands For sure. I made good money after the dot-com bubble popped taking a machete to code bases generated by prominent consulting companies who must have used an army of juniors to slap things together while the money was flowing.