What's happening right now is a fad, even if some aspects of it end up making long term impacts. The earlier AI fads of the 60s and 70s, the expert systems of t

What's happening right now is a fad, even if some aspects of it end up making long term impacts. The earlier AI fads of the 60s and 70s, the expert systems of the 80s, and deep learning of the early 2000s died off but left a few bits of useful stuff. Similar to much of the CASE and UML hype, we didn't get everything promised but we still got some useful IDE features and a recognizable way to express code diagrammatically as a documentation tool.