Im not even exaggerating, you can see these types of comments on social media

Otherwise it sounds like "many people have had their lives changed by {insert philosophical/religious movement}, so if you're not finding it true you should look into what's wrong with you."

It's a great feeling knowing any tool I write in Elisp will likely work for the rest of my life as is.

Not saying this is more useful per se, just saying that different approaches have their pros and cons.

I think the analogy is also off a bit. I't be more apt to say a good surgeon should be expected to use electrosurgical units from different manufacturers, which is a completely fair expectation.

Ok, so by 2027 we should be having fleets of autonomous AI agents swarming around every bug report and solving it x times faster than a human. Cool, so I guess by 2028 buggy software will be a thing of the past (for those companies that fully adopt AI of course). I'm so excited for a future where IT projects stop going overtime and overbudget and deliver more value than expected. Can you blame us for thinking this is too good to be true?

Reference to the previously posted "You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy"

> Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you know what? That’s fine. In fact, it’s great. It makes you happy, what else is needed? You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy.

Juxtaposing Emacs with the adjectives obsolescent, and undead is sad to read. Emacs is constantly reinventing and readapting itself, and just like Emacs takes and incorporates the best ideas from other tools, ideas from Emacs find their way to other environments.

My belief is that true utility will make itself apparent and won't have to be forced. The usages of LLMs that provide immense utility have already spread across most the industry.

The amount and complexity of software will expand to its very outer bounds for which specialists will be required.

Like, I always thought that the Umayyad elites sometimes didn't even want people to convert, lest their privilege become diluted.

That's an incredible statement, as if the rest of the world is somehow different. The only thing special about these regions is that they've had complex states for longer, so of course state-based warfare would go back farther.

On another level, there absolutely have been periods of stability in regions of the middle east, for periods of time we would consider long.

I work on full blown legacy apps and needless to say I don't even bother with LLMs when working on these most of the time.

With all the money in the AI space these days, my prior probability for an article extolling the virtues of AI actually trying to sell something is rather high.

I just want a few good unbiased academic studies on the effects of various AI systems on things like delivery time (like are AI systems preventing IT projects from going overtime on a fat-tailed distribution? is it possible with AI to put end to the chapter of software engineering projects going disastrously overtime/overbudget?)

Wait, companies are claiming that large language models are separate legal entities??

I've been driving a lot in Istanbul lately and I'm not holding my breath for autonomous vehicles any time soon.