Did it? Cryptocurrency enabled gambling and illicit purchases, that's it. In all other ways it was/is a solution in need for a problem.

Current gen AI has a ton of issues, but it nevertheless enables vast amounts of use cases today, right now.

And hoping that slop that is created today will provide work for the artisanal craftsman in the future is wishful thinking at best.

When you think about it, "vibe coding" kinda enables gambling, but with software.

You set up your prompt, CLAUDE.MD, include the source files and let it rip. It gets some things right, some things wrong. You fix some things manually, /clean and go again. Sometimes you gotta throw it out and start over. Feels like "most players stop just before striking it big".

No, not really.