TSMC has a factory in the USA now, ASML too. OpenAI, Google, xAI and Nvidia are natively in the USA.
While no other country is even close to build AI on their own.
Is the USA going to "own" the world by becoming the keeper of AI? Or is there an alternative future that has a probability > 0?
* "I know how this works and it's just numbers all the way down" is not an argument of any validity, just to be clear- everything eventually is just physics, blind mechanics.
Maybe LLMs can't work on huge code bases yet, but for writing bespoke software for individuals who need a computer to do xyz but can't speak the language, it already is working wonders.
Being dismissive of LLMs while sitting above their current scope of capabilities gives strong Microsoft 2007 vibes; "The iPhone is a laughable device that presents no threat to windows mobile".
The amount of “work” done there is staggering and yet adoption appears abysmal, using such solutions with success only happens as part of a really “well oiled” machine.
And what about the simple difficulty going from 99% to 99.9%. What percentage are we even talking about today? We don’t know, but very rich people think it is cool and blindly keep investing more billions.
It's fine to chase hype for hobbyist or starter projects, but part of being an engineer is understanding how things actually work and what their limitations are.
It's not a virtue to deify a statistics model and make it your entire personality.
If you aren't an engineer, I get why you think it's magic. Everything is magic when you don't understand how it works.
Nobody thought the iPhone was magic. It was an instant hit because the capabilities were immediate and obvious, and Apple had a long history of being able to execute.
If you find it useful, by all means, use it. But this is the new blockchain.