>but the shift has never been as fundamental as it is today with AI.
How are we so sure? I'm not old enough to have lived through every/many big shifts in our industry but how do we know this is not what people who lived through the compiler-shift era felt? Or people who saw higher level languages like C or C++ be created, or the punch cards getting replaced with a digital display?
This AI stuff feels magical and so much bigger than other shifts, but maybe only in retrospect.
How are we so sure? I'm not old enough to have lived through every/many big shifts in our industry but how do we know this is not what people who lived through the compiler-shift era felt? Or people who saw higher level languages like C or C++ be created, or the punch cards getting replaced with a digital display?
This AI stuff feels magical and so much bigger than other shifts, but maybe only in retrospect.