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> Of course they don't call them golden ages as they're happening. "Golden age" is a term people use later, after they're over. That doesn't mean that golden ag
by yread 7mo ago
> Of course they don't call them golden ages as they're happening. "Golden age" is a term people use later, after they're over. That doesn't mean that golden ages aren't real, but rather that their participants take them for granted at the time. They don't know how good they have it. But while it's usually a mistake to take one's good fortune for granted, it's not in this case. What a golden age feels like, at the time, is just that smart people are working hard on interesting problems and getting results.
Is he talking about software development here? Are we going to call the pre-LLM era the golden age where relatively limited set of individuals had to be paid a lot to craft artisanal "code" which with LLMs became super cheap?
- busssard 7mo agoi love the analogy. the golden age of the web was before javascript, when only people who knew how to code html were able to make websites. however things come in cycles, so who knows maybe the next will come by
- ido 7mo agoBut js didn't make it any easier, html is in fact simpler (and you still needed to write html post-js).
- yread 7mo ago> only people who knew how to code html were able to make websites And the people who were able to click Save as HTML in Word creating a complete jumble that only worked in IE
- oytis 7mo agoArguably, not even the pre-LLM era, enterprise sales started dominating over technical excellence some time before LLMs were invented.
- philipallstar 7mo agoEnterprise sales predate the 2000s-2010s when B2C work really took off with places like Google, Amazon, and platforms like mobile. Mainframes in the 1960s. Relational databases in the 1980s. Productivity in the 1990s.