Attention is all you need

No - not that one. One thing I think the eruption of LLM-assisted development has done is make it painfully clear that human attention is the real currency that matters, and it isn’t becoming more abundant. An Example There’s a subreddit that focuses on FIRE (financial independence, retire early) and over the years the ‘meta’ posts associated with the subreddit have changed. Every time the stock market goes up, there are lots of ‘milestone’ posts sharing new milestones hit. Every time the market goes down there are “hold the course” messages. Leaks about the Government’s budget get endlessly scrutinised. And perhaps once every year, somebody would build a new tool (often in Excel) for calculating some aspect of financially modelling the journey to an early retirement. Now, there’s a new post in town. “Does anybody want to check out my FIRE calculator app I built?” LLMs have made spinning up a repo tailored to your financial position trivial. It can do modelling, forecasting, and offer…