If AI turns out to be a bust, ignoring it could become a significant win. One possible outcome of AI adoption is that existing code bases are degraded, and existing programmer capability is allowed to atrophy. In that situation, companies that adopt AI lose out relative to companies that eschew it.
replyWhat if the outcome is the competition burns their money on LLM usage for little to no gain? If you're an exec and you jumped into LLMs as well then you also lose any advantage you would have had by saving your money or hiring a few more humans.
reply> What if the outcome is the competition burns their money on LLM usage for little to no gain?
replyThe company does better than the money-burning competition, but the executives personally gain nothing; there are no bonuses just because the competition took a misstep.