There's always been absurdity though, right?

These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010:

- 4GL business languages making developers redundant

- Big data

- Cloud computing

- DevOps

- LLMs

For those about to quit, I salute you.

jghn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I started my career in the mid-90s and 4GLs making all of us obsolete was already a thing by then!

schnevets 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the fad that most closely aligned with current AI absurdity was mid-2000s outsourcing.

	▲	QuiEgo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like it was the dot com boom. :s/"Make everything online"/"Make everything use AI"/g In a similar story, AI makes sense for some stuff but not other stuff. The stuff where it does not make sense for is gonna do bad when the bubble pops.

Definitely has always been some absurdity and I think there always will be. I think it only varies in the degree!