Each of these steps made computation increasingly more expensive cycle- and power-wise. We counteracted that with Moore’s for a while, then had to go “scalable”

Each of these steps made computation increasingly more expensive cycle- and power-wise. We counteracted that with Moore’s for a while, then had to go “scalable”. It worked because it was still cheaper than hiring an employee. I bet that LLMs will create another level of bloat industry where computation will be as expensive as making a human to do the same thing, because there will be no human-can-do-it constraint anymore. This promise of “AI will create cool software” is akin to “robots will fly in cars in vertical cities” of 19/20th century scifi. All we got is worse traffic and exponentially expensive housing.