I’d say that that depends on which side of the industry/government demarcation line you’re closest to. Assuming you’re neither a key player at a major institutional investor nor a congressional staffer, and don’t directly help to make decisions about where the big money goes or how the government reacts to LLMs, you’re probably a more minor player along one or both of those axes.
For example, if you’re a middle-manager at some midwestern industrial microcontroller programming company, you’ll be making decisions about tech adoption. <Evil tech CEO> wants you to be an optimist, because if your team doesn’t adopt, his bottom line shrinks slightly, and if your non-adopting team does well, your bosses (and theirs, and so on) might reconsider spending $200 per employee to get the other teams Ultra AI Max subscriptions from <Evil tech CEO>’s company.
On the flip side, if you’re a prolific Twitter account within the landscape of your statewide <Democrat/Republican> political machine, maybe <Evil tech CEO> would slightly prefer that you consider it all hype, and advise your followers to take the tax money for some data centers here and there, and quietly plan out what you’re going to do with them “when the bubble pops”.
I’d say that that depends on which side of the industry/government demarcation line you’re closest to. Assuming you’re neither a key player at a major institutional investor nor a congressional staffer, and don’t directly help to make decisions about where the big money goes or how the government reacts to LLMs, you’re probably a more minor player along one or both of those axes.
For example, if you’re a middle-manager at some midwestern industrial microcontroller programming company, you’ll be making decisions about tech adoption. <Evil tech CEO> wants you to be an optimist, because if your team doesn’t adopt, his bottom line shrinks slightly, and if your non-adopting team does well, your bosses (and theirs, and so on) might reconsider spending $200 per employee to get the other teams Ultra AI Max subscriptions from <Evil tech CEO>’s company.
On the flip side, if you’re a prolific Twitter account within the landscape of your statewide <Democrat/Republican> political machine, maybe <Evil tech CEO> would slightly prefer that you consider it all hype, and advise your followers to take the tax money for some data centers here and there, and quietly plan out what you’re going to do with them “when the bubble pops”.