Programming

" I'm kind of sick of this side to the argument even though it's mostly just people trying to fight insane push from board rooms, wanting everyone to adopt the tools.

Pretty typical behavior from the higher ups. We go through this every hype cycle. Someone develops an air nailer, while we've been using hammers, and now everything needs to be fastened with a nail. Even though a nail is often not the correct fastener.

We went through the same thing with "the cloud". I remember how every company was going to gleefully dismantle their data center and all the system admins were going to be unemployed. At least if you listened the talking heads and salespeople. Neither of those actually happened. But "the cloud" certainly changed things. If nothing else, it brought enterprise grade IT solutions to orgs that don't have the capital to build and maintain data centers.

I get really skeptical whenever someone starts claiming a particular tech solution is a silver bullet. And LLM's are no silver bullet. But they're not going away either, whether the naysayers like it or not.