For what it’s worth, I find comments and articles with assertive predictions like this difficult to take at face value.
I don’t even disagree with the premise, but it shifts the burden of assessing likelihood back onto the reader, so it doesn’t really add much value to me.
That’s my point though? Debugging a 5-minute problem is in the shallow end of the spectrum, the real complexity sits where they lean on their domain experience. Finance and payments software mistakes can absolutely be expensive.
> All my finance and payment domain expertise, all the debugging intuition and distributed system knowledge earned through hours of sweat and tears, is now promptable.
Is it really though? Access to information is quicker, but you still need to know what ‘good’ looks like to leverage it effectively. I can prompt my way to a medical diagnosis, but I’d still want to run it by a doctor.
This was my reaction as well, a lot of hand-waving and invented jargon reminiscent of the web3 era - which is a shame, because I'd really like to understand what they've actually done in more detail.
I don’t even disagree with the premise, but it shifts the burden of assessing likelihood back onto the reader, so it doesn’t really add much value to me.