Viral meme: if AI systems all died, IT would regress to Y2K levels
dotey · x · 2026-09-19
A viral meme riffing on Asimov's Foundation: the author jokes that programmers' learning paths now depend so heavily on AI that if all AI systems suddenly died 30 years from now, the IT industry would regress to Y2K-era levels — a pointed take on deep AI dependence and skill-atrophy worries.
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