Amazon was a cute company that sold books.

'capable'? I would not employee AI as a replacement for a human software dev, because they are not reliable enough. They do not produce production code. They are useful helpers only.

It's all Greek to me

Yeah, he spent a lot on AI, producing some useful tech and models that're all public domain. I used some of those myself about 5 years ago, before chat GPT came out. Now he's weeping because he lost the AI battle. He's trying to play catch-up.

The touchpoints for developers will change. It will be:
- data structures and related projections
- high-level logic
- low-level optimizations

The rest the AI will take care of.

Java, C# - any VM environment - are now bloat. We have AI to write C, C++, Object-Pascal, etc. Why use ORMs when you can write perfectly-crafted SQL that runs 50 times quicker with the help of AI? Why keep all your logic in middleware when you can leverage your database to do 80% of the work?

The list of technologies that were once considered game changers and which are now in the dustbin of history is huge. I think that that list will grow exponentially with AI helping us write.

Too much of my professional career has been trying to figure out with poor documentation or examples on stack overflow how to make things work. Too much time has been wasted on the next killer technology.

And I'm not blaming the writers here. I'm blaming it on the lack of resources given to the writers.

LLMs now fill this gap. I'm relearning Pascal (using freepascal) and am having to rely a lot on Gemini to get me going quickly. A good manual and reference book would be better, but I simply can't waste my time going through inadequate documentation.

With the Internet, documentation went online and, even though it was more easily obtainable, the quality declined. It is now really hard to understand most reference books, and manuals written by the software producer are like gold dust.