The five stages of losing our craft

I was acing Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course back in 2013. I think I was excited about "AI" before most people. I came away from that excited about implementing, not using it. Then I watched how nobody had any really fresh ideas for about 10 years and just threw hardware and money at what amounts to the same old algorithms. I will say that trillions of dollars in data centers have made it much better than it was.

But, I still don't see it as suitable for anything creative. Ask your AI for a number between 1 and 10 and it will say 7, because statisically, that's the number. Designing an API is creative. Even in Oracle v. Google, that was something everyone agreed upon.

People telling me "If you don't know AI, you'll be left behind" make me smile. It sounds like the new "If you don't know Microsoft Office, you'll be left behind" to me. I like computers, not... using office. I like optimizing algorithms, not generating slop.