[csa]

> nobody understanding what is going on underneath

I think many developers, especially ones who come from EE backgrounds, grossly overestimate the number of people needed who understand what is going on underneath.

“Going on underneath” is a lot of interesting and hard problems, ones that true hackers are attracted to, but I personally don’t think that it’s a good use of talented people to have 10s or 100s of thousands of people working on those problems.

Let the tech geniuses do genius work.

Meanwhile, there is a massive need for many millions of people who can solve business problems with tech abstractions. As an economy (national or global), supply is nowhere close to meeting demand in this category.

[storus]

The point is that LLMs can only replicate what existed somewhere, they aren't able to invent new things. Once humans lose their edge, there won't be any AI-driven progress, just a remix of existing stuff. That was the hollowing out I mentioned. Obviously, even these days there is tech that looks like magic (EUV lito etc.) but there are at least some people that understand how it all works.