Why Chatbots May Cause Software to Disrupt Itself... and How to 'Play'​ the Crisis Du Jour

Source: Huggingface.co

With the advent of sophisticated chatbots like ChatGPT, there was an immediate sense of fear in the creative community...

The initial reaction by the likes of journalists, graphics artists, photographers, copywriters, and others was that artificial intelligence ("AI") was coming for their jobs.

And for mankind, maybe it is... and maybe there's reason for concern at some levels. But here's a group you probably didn't have on your bingo card: software engineers.

And it's kind of ironic...

In a sense, software engineers are creating the disruptive technology that very well may cause their own disruption – and in the process are doing what technology has done to every industry but technology: make things, in this case software, cheaper.

That's the opinion of my friend Paul Kedrosky and his business partner Eric Norlin of SK Ventures in an essay last week headlined, "Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment."

I call it an essay, but it's more like an academi…