When it pops, will the current pervasive LLM and Gen’AI’ slop dry up as their companies go under? Will LLM and agentic chatbots be removed from all the apps that have been shoehorning them into everything? Or will just some companies go under, some stocks lose value and people’s 401ks are hollowed out
LLMs are extremely useful for any kind of Natural Language Processing workloads, you might need to do. They’re like an order of magnitude improvement over previous techniques. Which is interesting, because Transformers actually didn’t come from natural language research. They just happened to be really good at encoding language.
I am definitely a skeptic when it comes to AI usage, but I have seen case studies. Where if you meet certain very high preconditions, you can use tools like claude to port an entire application from, say react to sevelte. For this to work, though, you have to have a precise description of the semantics of your entire application. So ~100% test coverage, ~100% meaningful types coverage. Maybe not universally useful, but it does make rewrites into safer or faster languages somewhat more tractable, at least while tokens aren’t too expensive.