Developer traces two-year swing from LLM skeptic to believer in economic doom
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-04
A developer recounts their shift: skeptical of LLMs in 2024, won over by Claude Code in mid-late 2025, assigning small-but-nonzero odds to economic doom by Q4 2025, and fully convinced doom is more probable than not by Q2 2026 — all within four years of ChatGPT's launch.
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