When I first learned HTML it was a decade old.
When I was taught .NET Framework, it had been around for 18 years.
When I learned JavaScript it was like 25 years old. Even React had been around for 7 years when I first picked it up.
Now it seems like products don't need any time to prove themselves or mature before battling to the top of market share. Because nobody has any foundational knowledge, nobody has any inertia and can hop from model to model and implementation to implementation because they don't need to really learn anything, they just yap into a text field like it's a blog. People in some cases are even giving the reins of control of their Bitcoin nodes to a linguistic guessing machine and it's wild to witness.
I just wonder about the wisdom of empowering builders to build with no educational barriers to entry. How can a layman properly test and secure the underlying model itself, let alone the electric sheep apps these androids dream up? It would be unreasonable to expect the vast majority of vibers to do this clearly. Their idea of security is putting "make sure it is secure" in the prompt, then asking the model if it's secure after it's built. When the standard is actually penetration testing, a specialized skill it takes time to learn.
You also wonder what it would take in terms of pain to make the whole foundation crumble. I feel like we are so numb to data breaches and personal info leaks that even a massive one wouldn't really curb the trends. So the course ahead for the near term may well be that most software is built on new flimsy constantly-crumbling foundations but we will still keep doing it anyway.
I dunno. I do have to use this shit every day, and when it comes to important and specific computational tasks, you have to hard-code those or they have an unacceptably high fail rate because hallucinations are ever-present. Been feeling like giraffe man about it for a while now (pic related).
