You Believe in AI the Wrong Way

The current obsession of some individuals about using LLMs for everything is partly driven by the fear of missing out; more so it seems to be a fear of becoming not needed and obsolete in the (apparently coming?) age of AI. Can something be done about such fear? As to concepts that we do not understand well yet (like large language models, AI and gods), in the 17th century the prominent French mathematician Blaise Pascal suggested a risk mitigation strategy that any individual can follow: believe and submit to that god just in case. For if it exists, the submission guarantees life in heaven, but if it does not exist, the small effort in believing in him doesn't seem like a large waste. It seems that currently many people are unconciously implementing Pascal's wager to the AI situation: some leave "manual coding" behind and try to turn themselves into "agentic engineers", some use the guessing machine as their therapist, some recommend others to read non-existent books ↗ while some…