With the advent of language models I really despair of new technologies catching on. LLMs are deceptive in their intelligence, as far as I can tell - they can seem expert in one domain and then fail absurdly on some new take on similar ideas that don't appear in the training data. Consequently, one loses a lot of productivity when switching to a fringe technology, even if its better.
Startup types used to say that its not enough to be better than the current solution - you have to be 100 times better to justify the switching cost, and with LLMs it seems like that is like 1000x. It sucks.
Startup types used to say that its not enough to be better than the current solution - you have to be 100 times better to justify the switching cost, and with LLMs it seems like that is like 1000x. It sucks.