Foot Guns for Sale

I don't think it's going to work out the way everybody thinks it will. The current narrative, at least the one pushed by the companies selling the shovels, is that AI will become centralized. Anthropic and OpenAI will offer safe, vetted AI. Developers will become mere prompt-engineers, submitting requests to these benevolent gatekeepers. They have tamed the dragon. We will benefit only if we become tenants to their API-driven fiefdoms, paying by the token for the privilege of renting intelligence. “They didn’t care that they’d seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn’t work in theory” - Clay Shirky I complain about AI frequently on this blog, but not because I don’t think it is useful. I use it quite frequently on my day to day. But what I hate is hype and fake narratives. In fact, I believe that the opposite of their narrative will come true. Technology will continue to improve whether Moore’s Law becomes a relic of the past or not. It’s been called dead, yet CPUs…