Why would anyone not be happy? There's jolly great fun to be had all around. - The Ph.Ds and other experts building LLMs are ecstatic because they're suddenly

Why would anyone not be happy? There's jolly great fun to be had all around. - The Ph.Ds and other experts building LLMs are ecstatic because they're suddenly getting paid a fortune and having an entire industry paying attention to their every little utterance. - The venture capitalists suddenly have a whole new technology to make their investment bets on and there are hordes of founders eager to vie for funding. - The grifters and hustlers have new sexy buzzwords to attach to their dubious products to try to rip off the credulous. - The fad chasers and résumé driven developers have a whole new silver bullet to pursue. - The influencers, know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, and net kooks have something new to pontificate on and debate each other about. - The sort of programmer getting benefit from LLMs and arguing that education is no longer necessary get to fantasize about finally being free of gatekeeping and more skilled software engineers looking down on them. I'm probably right on the edge of violating some kind of guideline so I shall stop there and say only that the chattering on HN should not be mistaken for what's going on in the real world.