>> but deep problems aren't being solved

There is no problem to solve. These days, solutions come in a package which includes the problems they intend to solve. You open the package. Now you have a problem that jumped out of the package and starts staring at you. The solution comes out of the package and chases the problem around the room.

You are now technologically a more progressed human.

This made me laugh a lot at the mental image. This was my experience with Xcode for sure.

This is where GP is wrong, I think. The problem are being solved, for now, because the businesses are still too excited about the whole AI thing to notice it's not in their interest, and properly consolidate against it.

And the problem being solved is, LLMs are universal interfaces. They can understand[0] what I mean, and they understand what those various "solutions" are, and they can map between them and myself on the fly. They abstract services away.

The businesses will eventually remember that the whole point of marketing is to prevent exactly that from happening.

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[0] - To a degree, and conditioned on what one considers "understanding", but still - it's the first kind of computer systems that can do this, becoming a viable alternative to asking a human.

I wish this was wrong, but it really isn't. To contrast though, I would argue that is part of evolution? We just want to do things faster or better? Smartphones solved no problems, but they ushered the digital millenium.

Wow. I hadn't thought of it like that but it resonates

If you like creating solutions, why wait for a problem to show up? lol

LOL, this is so true.