... you can be living in a golden era for software development.
Let's assume for a moment that you're correct. That AI is already better than most developers, for whatever definition of "better" you like, and they will very soon be better than any person. (I think this is a total fantasy and you've failed to recognise the limitations as the article points out, but I digress.)
In that case the end goal of these companies is to replace all software engineers. Do you not see that? They've not been hiding this fact. It's a good thing for you and I that these models don't work, because if they did the "golden age" is not coming for us, it's coming for people who own compute capacity and the rest of us will become labourers.
Additionally, if this is true companies that have replaced all their software engineers will discover that they themself can be completely replaced by AI by their former customers.
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Let's assume for a moment that you're correct. That AI is already better than most developers, for whatever definition of "better" you like, and they will very soon be better than any person. (I think this is a total fantasy and you've failed to recognise the limitations as the article points out, but I digress.)
In that case the end goal of these companies is to replace all software engineers. Do you not see that? They've not been hiding this fact. It's a good thing for you and I that these models don't work, because if they did the "golden age" is not coming for us, it's coming for people who own compute capacity and the rest of us will become labourers.
Fixed weights don't preclude in-context learning and out-of-the-loop weight updates. And that's the only principled limitation mentioned in the post.
Additionally, if this is true companies that have replaced all their software engineers will discover that they themself can be completely replaced by AI by their former customers.