Simon Willison

Exactly, yes.

They're constantly publishing essays that try and make this case.

Nobody believes a word they say.

Barack Obama's signature on one of these position papers, and maybe you've got something people might start to trust a little bit.

I think the previous Pope, there was something relating to AI.

There was one of those Catholic proclamations with a bunch of footnotes and things.

Definitely.

I mean, yeah, anyone who's paying close attention to coding agents is feeling some of that already.

Like there's an extent where you sort of get over it when you realize that you're still useful, even though your ability to memorize the syntax of program languages is completely irrelevant now.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, something I see a lot of is there are people out there who are having existential crises and are very, very unhappy because they're like, I dedicated my career to learning this thing and now it just does it.

What am I even for?

And I will very happily try and convince those people that they are for a whole bunch of things and that none of that experience they've accumulated is gone to waste and so on.

But yeah, no, it's psychologically, it's a difficult time for

It is deep blue.

Okay, I need to throw in a positive prediction.

Yeah.

But it's not an AI prediction.

This is a one year.