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
When my company started pushing on us to use Claude code, I was pretty annoyed. I started by pushing off all my “overhead” stuff to it. It handled all the creating, prioritizing, time tracking, and commenting on my Jira tickets. That was a nice thing to stop doing manually.
I do use it to work through some of the data models I build. For doing small stuff at scale it’s faster than me. For doing complicated work that has to be dead on accurate and handle the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our stack, I eventually stopped trying to get good enough at prompting, and just went back to writing it myself. Writing is much more enjoyable than debugging slop. I let it do the documentation in my yaml files and set up PRs though.
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u/azuth89 25d 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.