Technology

Can't wait for the Needle of Reality to smash into this bubble.

Technology has never been perfect, but we've trusted it and its purveyors to fix the problems when they're noticed.

The problem with AI has been that a lot of people are trusting it unquestioningly, and when it spews out garbage, attitude has been "Meh, close enough." It'll get better, but only by double and triple validating the work, which means even more processing and power usage.

Those people who want to turn over full control over to LLMs are in for a rude awakening.

There's a world coming in which every appliance and automated system you can imagine will have had it's onboard OS pretzled together by vibe coders. Good coding by real human engineers will be considered a luxury process for high-end products while the masses live their lives in a sea of glitchy, unreliable, deeply insecure, highly networked cheap consumer goods, vacuuming up and reselling every byte of data they can get their claws into. This will be heralded by the tech oligarchs and their pet journalists and politicians as a great and revolutionary stepped forward on the March of Progress.