work in progress
The interest to have AI tools was always there, but the technology wasn't advanced enough.
15 years ago when I worked on my diploma project, having handwriting recognition on a mobile device where you can draw letters and have a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) was considered a pretty novel usage of AI. Nowadays it is everywhere.
AI tools like Claude and Codex help developers to be much more productive (GitHub Copilot claims 2x). It's also more fun, because the road from idea to a visual product implemented even for a proof of concept is much shorter.
There are two schools of thought on AI's impact. The first warns about the negative consequences for society. The second one sees AI as an amplifier - a tool that helps us be more productive and achieve more.
The articles below capture both perspectives:
I lean towards the amplifier view.