Job done fella.
I totally understand that not everyone is having that experience. And yet until people live it, it seems they just discount the experience others are having.
I'll take the 12 month bet.
It's clearly relative. For all we know you're a crap coder and AI is now your crutch. We have no evidence that with AI you are as good as an average developer with a fair amount of experience. And even if you do have a fair amount of experience, that doesn't mean you're a good coder.
The iPod project was done in months, not years. Im convinced most people aren't as good at programming / focusing on the right stuff as they claim.
Let us not lose sight of how we got here.
Guys like you dont get it. You think OAI, Amazon etc can freely put large amounts of money into this for 5-10 years? Lmao - delusional. Investors are impatient. Show huge jumps in revenue this year or you no longer have permission to put monumental amounts of money into this anymore.
Short of that they'll just destroy the stock price by selling off; leaving employees who get paid via SBC very unhappy.
My point is the cat is out of the bag. It doesn't take massive investments to achieve iterative improvements on SOTA. As long as the technology does not plateau, smaller labs have shown it's possible to advance the frontiers independent of large companies/investments. And as these frontiers advance, more and more of economical knowledge work will be subsumed by AI. I don't see a way out of this, which is why I am a strong proponent of wealth distribution eg UBI.
Won't matter. The Chinese models will be running on potatoes by then and be better than ever.