Right now, The US and China are in an AI war. The US is doing everything it can to stop China from making progress on AI like it was a nuclear bomb. And it just might be that consequential in 10 years.

Where I am now is past the "3 sleepness nights" of 'Co-Intelligence' fame.

If you haven't seen a properly contexted (50k-100k tokens, depending on the size of the project(s)) LLM work in a code repo, then you have no idea why so many of us are terrified. LLMs are already taking jobs. My company laid off 7% of the workforce because of LLM's impact directly. I say that not because the CEO said it, but because I see it in my day to day. I'm a Principal Engineer and I just don't have need of Juniors anymore. They used to be super useful because they were teachable, and after some training you can offload more and more work to them and free up your time to work on harder problems.

With MCPs, LLMs aren't limited to the editor window anymore. My models update my JIRA tickets for me, rip content from the wiki into it's markdown memory bank which is kept in repo and accelerates everyone's work. It's connecting to databases to find out schemas and example column data. Shit, as I'm typing this it's currently deploying a new version of a container to ECR/ECS/Fargate with terraform for a little project I'm working on.

I believe we are in the very early days of this technology. I believe that over the next ten years, we are going to inundated with new potential for LLMs. It's impossible to foresee all the changes this is going to bring to society. The use cases are going to explode as each tiny new feature or new mode evolves.

My advice is to get off of the sidelines and level up your skills to include LLM integrations. Understand how they work, how to use them effectively, how to program system integrations for them... agents especially! Agents can be highly effective at many use cases. For instance, an Agent that watches a JIRA board for new tickets which contain prompts to be executed in certain repos, then executes the prompt and creates a PR for the changes. All in a context that is fully aware of your environment, deployment, CI/CD, secrets management, etc.

Anything will be possible sooner than we expect. It's going to impact the poorest people the most. A really cyberpunk reality could be upon us faster than we expect, including the starving masses stuggling to get enough to even survive.