> And we are also killing with AI the possibility of new people getting up to speed and becoming a future Rich Hickey.
Not sure I am on board with this part... I find LLMs in particular to be great teachers specifically for getting up to speed to becoming future Rich Hickey.
it is indeed a great teacher but there are times where it hallucinates and sticks to the hallucinated content even after several iteration unless human in the loop breaks it. i've wasted hours believing what LLM hallucinated.
my learnings are a lot of microdoses of things that I usually don't work on in a day to day so i don't want to spend time reading about it but yes this sort of learning would be otherwise impossible so gotta thank LLM for that.