I think it's too soon to tell. Training the next generation of models means building out entire datacenters. So while they wait they have engineers build these sidequests/hacks.

Not sure why AI is on that list.

Maybe "what most companies use AI for" (i.e. glorified data collection) or "what most companies try to pass off as useful AI" (i.e. what we used to call machine learning, but now that ecommerce app can also tell you your latest sales in the form of a poem).

Self-driving cars don't use LLMs so the comparison is invalid, it's a different technology.

> So when an elderly person with out-of-state children dies, those children are going to sell to the quickest and most-secure bidder... a developer with a cash offer.

But they put it on the market, so won't different developers compete and bid up the price, eating up potential profits? Calling it a handout is incorrect.

This is exactly how I write code. I wonder if there is a name for this pattern? Something like "functional dependency injection"?