Sure. I get you.
Let's agree though that this is happening, regardless of any quality measures or value to the serfs.
I think we are entering Revelation Space territory. (and other science fiction scenarios)
We're back to the dark ages of Wizards and serfs and monks and Mad Rulers.

We are as a species are going to split into factions, religious rejectionists like Luddites, Robot-Human Hybrids, Evil Machines, etc.
Like in the middle ages, the vast majority of people will be unwashed masses, uneducated, but now with cellphones and "smart devices"... just staring into their screens playing video games, watching porn, gambling, just amusing themselves until they meet the grim reaper.

Then the "true experts" will be these one in a million genius types, the Issac Newtons, the Einsteins, etc. There's a kid from Indonesia I saw on TV. He's about 18 or 20 by now. When he was... 12 years old he could play jazz piano like Thelonius Monk or Oscar Peterson.. The kid was savant genius. He just popped out and played jazz. Or like in China.. when they do a big show for the world.. Some girl born without arms, but she can play pipe organ with her feet. Jesus fucking Christ. Why bother trying? Summer Mackintosh the Canadian swimmer... One day she show up and smashes the records for 100 meter butterfly by a huge margin. There is no competing against someone like that. They are just made better than you.

I think we're there now. Savant geniuses and unwashed masses. Nothing in between except all the AI that harvested today's expertise and then sells it back to you. Ugly, but a probable future, imho.

I'm going to throw in with you on this.
I started using gemini and found it's far better than my best employee ever was.
My best employee was very very good, but I'd have to wait a day to see results of the meeting.
One thing he (best employee) did that AI can't do is make good judgement calls. No question there.

However, when the AI spits out a half day's work in 10 seconds, it allows me the analyst/designer/project manager to rapidly analyze the output, and do another iteration of design ideas, immediately, or as fast as I can analyze process and respond.
So I can get dozens of turnarounds per day compared to even a good employee.

Working in small logical work units yields very good results. I haven't rolled up my sleeves and done any 12 hour days of deep concentration on code for years, and I don't need to. I have much knowledge and can review code but I don't need to double check syntax or look for typos, the grunt work.

I don't think that I'm losing anything, I do the architecture and design. I think I'm getting huge value and speed from gemini... the key to me is that I work at mid to high levels of abstraction, work in small logical units, review the output, and let the tool worry about the grunt work. I work as a product designer, it works as a coder. My designs are improving significantly from having the AI critique my designs and suggest various possible improvements or how to use tools that I did not know about. I don't need to code. Caveats are that I am not building mission critical or real time software. The reality is maintenance is a dead concept. As the coding agents/models improve, you can conceivably drop your whole codebase into the NEXT better model every time a better model comes out, and it will do the optimizations and grunt work.

Don't hate me. I can see the future and it is grim for people, coders, entry level people. But YOU WILL USE AI for coding is here for non mission critical applications. It's sad but true to say that "quality" is a quaint and outdated concept.. (like privacy).. good enough is today's "quality". Don't shoot the messenger, but barely working, is still working. if it don't work replace it, don't maintain it.

There will always be a need for true experts, good designers, but the writing is on the wall, AI IS REPLACING all junior functions at this time. If you are doing a web based database system, pfft, it barely matters if there is a bug.. I regret that statement but I feel it's today's reality.

I found that sometime during the pandemic, 3 or 4 years ago, a cold wind blew over open source. When I would suggest to people that such and such open source software would be a viable alternative to whatever Apple or Microsoft software they were using it was met with suspicion and categorically rejected. "I would ONLY use Apple software", "I only trust Apple" was the response. Open source seems to be now perceived as criminal. Ironic really, because some of those same people might buy bitcoin because they heard "line go up". So you trust bitcoin, but you wouldn't use open source software?

too bad this is at least 15 year late
We're in to the doom spiral of multi crises
dumb kids is just one of the results
dumb adults is another

anyone found to be using Starlink
(anyone that isn't "elite")

Now I'm suing Bloomberg.

The www. The open web is finished. The www is for logged in services only now. The things you have to do, booking air tickets, banking, taxes.

Surely a large percentage of users are already delusional.
Come for the flattery, stay to feed your delusions.

Yeah, that's basically it. It's a drug, and it's potently addictive.. but it's so abstract, that people don't even know. So you can't talk about it, and you can't take it away from people or they exhibit all the stages of addiction withdrawl. Denial, evasion, anger when cornered, fake ignorance, lying. I'm shooting dopamine as fast as possible, because my tolerance is shot after the first three hits. Now we got peeps who lose motivation to think or do for themselves. Sure I'm preachy, but you deserve that. Who me? I'm not addicted. Blessed be the toolmakers for they shall pillage the herds of delicious sheep. If you're not a toolmaker, you're food for one.

That wording!
Guaranteed to make old farts go ballistic.
Yet, here we are.

The Meta Article and the Apple Article?

Meta: Big Bad people enabling sex offenders
Apple: Nice shiny glasses with rounded edges giving it style.

Hilarious, right?
anyone?

ironic, though, wouldn't it be great to submit your decent code to an AI reviewer ?
Which has the advantages of a meatbag to figure out all the context, write something that makes sense, then throw it over the wall to the reviewer who has all the speed and other advantages of AI. Doesn't sound horrible. Seems better than what we have, which is the opposite. The big dummy in the room writes the code then the big brains in the room review it. Ugh. We all know what kernaghan said, about it being twice as hard to debug ... :-)

It's pretty obvious that the Agents will be trained for different functions. Red Team AI vs Blue Team AI.
One Agent writes it, another Agent reviews it. Just like old times, huh?

this is just me extemporizing, but part of the issue is that consciousness is like your cpu and registers, we work similarly, where your attention, your focus, is what you are thinking at the current moment... you load the latest sensory and thinking information into your registers, and deal with it. You can't deal with more than one thing, or possibly a few things, at one time. It's a processing bottleneck. Many greater minds have suggested that intelligence needs many things, like a body to experience the world, and other things that we have.. like forgetting.. suggesting that Artificial intelligence would likely evolve into bodies like us... I think Kurzweil said that. He more or less said that we will model AI on US, because it's the best model we have. But others suggest it's an unavoidable path forward for AI. Just shootin the breeze here..

I have oled on a laptop and its by far the best screen I have. I'd definitely want it in a larger size ... saw a 28 inch oled monitor at the local shop... mmm mmm

I haven't seen the new hisense monitor ... but if you can *really* see the difference, I can see the motivation to purchase .