Identity Crisis In The Age of AI

Usual caveat emptor here: what I‘m writing here is my personal opinion, and while it does relate to a field my current employer (Meta) has interest in, it does not represent the views of my current, past, or future employers. Yes we all get bored by these preambles, but if you want to still be able to hear the opinions of seasoned engineers you’ll have to live with them. I personally would not want to lose my job because my posts are reported as being related to it. They’re not. Over the past year, if you are a tech enthusiast, you cannot have missed the raise of a new class of software, which I personally started referring to as APA, Artificial Personal Assistant. Both because I dislike the “claws” name, and because as it was predicable a number of projects are now spawning to refine (pun intended) the concept and in some case “productify” it. I have played around with a couple of these projects (harnesses? frameworks?) if nothing else because in my profession I don’t get to choose…