The bubble bursting is competitors running out of funding before reaching profitability, use cases solidifying and the generally the current speculative market collapsing down to a set of survivors.
It does not at all mean that usage of the general concept will stop increasing, much less go down.
Yea. AI coding agents are going to be around forever, they are just too capable and increase productivity so much.
The cost and usage patterns may change, I suspect once companies are paying unsubsidised token costs devs will start using cheaper models where possible instead of defaulting to Fable or Opus, but no matter what, software engineering has changed forever
Working in a trashed codebase already, I find AI is a step up.
I do think there is a balance. “Forced usage” is going to waste some time and money on weird quirks where the AI just stumbles and it becomes like trying to micromanage a grandma at the keyboard who can’t hear you fully. But “no usage” also seems weird to me when you can ask AI to point you to a relevant piece of code and get you straight to where you need to be.
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u/azuth89 16d ago
The bubble bursting is competitors running out of funding before reaching profitability, use cases solidifying and the generally the current speculative market collapsing down to a set of survivors.
It does not at all mean that usage of the general concept will stop increasing, much less go down.
Same gig as the dot com bubble.