The future is perpetually dealing with the fallout from all the vibe coding as the pool of people who'd have a shot at fixing it gets smaller and smaller. Shitty will be the new normal.

Same as anything else. It’ll go down sometimes, people will take a break and chat, then it will come back up.

Like Slack or GitHub or AWS or whatever. It’s almost always a net positive to wait vs do it yourself.

I think there are some pretty good ways to understand it now.

When the electricity goes out, (most) people get similarly upset. No electricity means no internet, and all of a sudden everything that people had planed to do can’t be done until the power returns.

> The drug is scary when everyone is depending on it. I wonder what is future like.

I can't wait for a Hollywood blockbuster that'll pretty much be science non-fiction.

same was said about electricity.

> wonder what is future like

Probably "don't do anything to upset AI companies or you will effectively become a handicapped person"

Not that different from life in China: "don't do anything to upset Tencent and AliPay or you will become an outcast"

Or life in the US if you're a content creator: "don't do anything to upset Meta or Youtube or you will not be able to pay your rent"

The future: ToS basically becomes law, and you will be stripped of your own second brain if you violate it or say anything they deem "sensitive"

Full of security holes

Seems far less scary to me than, say, building an electrical grid in a cold climate, where if it fails for a few days people start to die. Oh wait...

Imagine what happens if computers stop working* and you have to go back to pen and paper for a few days.

* ransomware attack, fire in the server room, database HDD crash, car accident takes out the internet connection, ...