That is hardly a smoking gun—I typed one just now.

There is also opportunity cost. Most people ignore most things because there are simply not enough hours in a day.

Don't you think automated evaluation and testing of code is likely to improve at an equally breakneck pace? It doesn't seem very far-fetched to soon have a simulated human that understands software from a user perspective.

Hard problems take more time than easy problems

Of course, but at least DeepMind is taking a crack at the important problems

Pretty much any software that people pay for? If LLMs could clone an app, why would anyone still pay good money for the original?

Came to say the same thing about Xcode, hehe. Could it be that the best tool is the one you're used to.

Taught by whom? Without evidence, this just comes of as a racist trope. FWIW, the Indians I've worked with have all been very honest and dedicated to their work.

Parent commenter is, as you’ve said just parroting racist tropes.

Anecdotally, I’ve worked with quite a lot of South Asian people, and there is an art to communicating with them - they’re remarkably indirect but thrrr are certain signs that they disagree. If you apply the same amount of skepticism to an Americans “super awesome mega amazing” bluster, you’d be pretty close to the mark IME.

Taught by a general culture where this is even conceivable not just as a covert cheat but as a public outlook:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-parents-scale-school-wal...

I've attempted this for the brave browser, which has a horrible icon in my opinion. It works but the original one self-restores after some time, even without updating the app.

Sorry but this makes no sense. Socializing is not an act of kindness, generally - people mostly do it because they want to. And people have always been selfish.

And people have always been alone, now we're discussing this in the context of an "epidemic".

> 80mph to cars that push past 600mph

I have yet to see evidence that this is really the case. Already 15 years ago, people were creating impressive software over the course of a hackday, by glueing open source repos together in a high level language. Now that process has been sped up even more, but does it matter that much if the prototype takes 4 or 24 hours to make? The real value is in well-thought-out, highly polished apps, and AFAICT those still take person-years to complete.

The REAL speed up comes to efforts that are already well-designed, but require lots of human busy work. I've personally seen multi-day human efforts reduced to a 15-minute session with an LLM. In a way, LLMs are reducing implementation costs to the kolmolgorov complexity -- you can get what you prompt for, but you have to remember to prompt for everything you want to get -- which comes easiest if you already took time to consider the design.