Jess👾I don't think AI will ever be "gone". We can't put the slop genie back in the bottle. But what WILL happen, it Has to happen, is that the costs per token will skyrocket as the free money runs out. There's just no other economics way for this to happen. And then all the slop engineers are going to discover: they don't know how to code without burning a million tokens a day, and all those tokens are costing more than double their salaries. So employers are going to discover: we can just hire 3 people for the price of one slop engineer and all their tokens.
If your $100k engineer is burning $200k in tokens every year, are they actually doing more and better and faster than simply having 3 $100k engineers? Probably not. But maybe they'll say it's worth having 2 engineers with a $50k slop budget each just so they see the barrel of the gun in case they decide to try and unionize.
Ed Wiebe@JessTheUnstill It’s extremely likely they aren’t engineers. If they were, they’d have had some training about safety and ethics. They wouldn’t rely on slop, because they’d be held responsible for harm caused by what they built.