The world has seen enough weather apps.

We all could live in fantastical universes where CEOs tell the truth and shareholders put other things over profits, but that's not the case. Another such case of a fantastical world, that contends with what Tolkien might have come up with, is believing LLMs are reliable, secure, or have any intelligence.

For one, I'm at peace with all these obituaries, like yours. If they're written by technical people, I rest assured of my job security. If they're not written by tech people, I'm at peace too, for time, as always, will come back with the invoice for their piss-poor hype-driven, sanguine mandates on the technical side of things.

I mean to say, it is a sad state, has always been, how informal software engineering compared to other engineering fields.