A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble
Modern machine learning has matured into boring, reliable infrastructure enabling developers to rapidly build production systems across multiple domains and languages, yet mainstream discourse remains fixated on AGI competition narratives that obscure this genuine technological revolution occurring at ground level. The author demonstrates this shift through personal experience: returning to coding after 13 years, they built serverless systems processing millions of posts, monitoring dashboards, and mobile apps within weeks using AI-assisted tools, while observing experienced developers emerging from semi-retirement and younger developers shipping products despite security trade-offs. The real story is not an AGI bubble popping but the acceleration of development velocity and accessibility that AI has enabled, fundamentally transforming how software infrastructure gets built.
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