A couple of months old now, but I just came across this article about #AI from @pluralistic, and it's well worth a read: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

I disagree with a few details -- in particular I think most tech companies would be entirely content to only fire scads of junior programmers, and keep the moderately-expensive senior ones to guide code generation -- but they're tangential to the point of this article.

He lays the groundwork for (but doesn't explicitly make) a fascinating point that hadn't occurred to me before: if you combine the growth of LLM codegen with the rulings about AI Art, you get a plausible case that generated *code* can't be copyrighted. Which should be giving corporate legal departments nightmares.

But overall, it's a fine summary of the bubble, why it's awful, and why we really need to pop it sooner rather than later. Check it out!