AI access, instead of bringing Utopian ideals, will of course resort to basic capitalist market dynamics where a select few have basically unlimited token budgets and the rest of the world scrapes by on smaller models, quantization, and Mixture of Experts
Since the GitHub Copilot token apocalypse this month I’ve had zero urge to code. Something I’ve done my entire adult life
Just genuinely depressed. How can you be creative while watching money leave your bank account for thinking? And how can you get that dopamine hit knowing you wasted time when an AI could have done it faster?
The only people left coding will be those with effectively unlimited token budgets. End of an era for regular developers.