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But aren't the devs of the future on GPT right now, half-assing learning to code while getting a fast track education in correcting bugs and architecting?

If this technology evolves to be able to reliably generate working code to a prompt, the entire field of software dev will shift dramatically. Some junior and some senior devs would prove better at meeting deadlines by AI whispering, and others would have to find new career paths.

>Art is a strange market, where people pay for more than the physical good being delivered

Luckily we're in tech, which doesn't work this way at all.

Also, most public libraries have extensive audiobook and ebook archives, and there are apps that bring all that content straight to your phone. If you live somewhere that has library access, you can greatly and easily expand your access to books, new and old through that method.

Actually, numerous studies have shown that restaurants that offer wifi spend a surprising amount of time assisting customers with logging in, and the average sit time skyrockets when people are checking email instead of consulting the menu. If these aren't designated cyber cafes we're talking about, it could be good for business. On the other hand, the situation described here would drive me crazy and I would be fantasizing about picking locks and climbing on rooftops trying to find the evil little device.