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> imagine where they'll be in five We got jet engines in airplanes only 25 years after the first flight. Imagine where we'll be 100 years after! (There's plen
by jonny_eh 4y ago
> imagine where they'll be in five
We got jet engines in airplanes only 25 years after the first flight. Imagine where we'll be 100 years after!
(There's plenty of progress to be made in gen AI, but don't expect the speed of progress to be constant)
- chefandy 4y ago"Tools like Flash and Dreamweaver will render web developers obsolete in the new millennium!" -90s tech journalists, amateur web 'designers', and other non-coders who assumed they understood software
- quickthrower2 4y agoStandards and expectations increase. People keep the same job title but do wildly different work now even in web dev.
- chefandy 4y agoIndeed, that's my point. Web development isn't unique in that respect.
- atleastoptimal 4y agoThe speed of hardware compute improvements has been on a constant exponential curve for the past 50 years. The speed of increased model capability has been on a consistent linear rate of improvement for the last 10. It would be the exception, not the rule, for this progress to slow necessarily in the near future.