I think a lot of discourse on here is missing just how powerful these LLMs are today and what impacts are coming. It's easy to make fun of one of these at a time, but that's not how they are going to be used in business. We're going to hit a point where commercially available clusters of agents can work as a team, with some agents writing code, others testing it, writing documents, handling user requests automatically, etc. Yes, one agent can Vibe Code some slop app that is useless, buy 20 of these things working together?!?

IT is cooked. I see departments of 20+ people across sales, marketing, development, etc. Being pared down to maybe 4-5 "AI coordinators" that babysit a bunch of always-working agents to keep them on task. So much that is computerized is vulnerable to this kind of disruption. And under capitalism it makes sense because why spend $100k/month on staff when you can get the same work out of 50k worth of tokens and a skeleton crew? AI doesn't take time off, doesn't get sick, and never refuses orders.

I hope China wins this and I hope Hexbear takes this threat more seriously.

my comment was not about AI specifically, but in regards to AI specifically, what the US is doing in terms of AI seems like paperclip maximalist clown show, while what the China is doing seems like a practical steeleman of what next generation automation could be. The US is ahead on some technical merits, but it's clear to me that China is winning on practical applications, efficiency, aspects related to manufacturing, and most importantly, the not-shitting-all-over-your-citizens aspect of it.