> If CEOs invest heavily in this, they won't back down because no one wants to be wrong.
They might not have to. If the results are bad enough then their companies might straight-up fail. I'd be willing to bet that at least one company has already failed due to betting too heavily on LLMs.
That isn't to say that LLMs have no uses. But just that CEOs willing something to work isn't sufficient to make it work.
Yes, but don't forget that higher-ups also control, to a large extent, the narrative. Whether laying off developers to replace them with LLMs was good for the company is largely uncorrelated to whether the person in charge of the operation will get promoted for having successfully saved all this money for the company.
Pre-LLM, that's how Boeing destroyed itself. By creating value for the shareholders.
They might not have to. If the results are bad enough then their companies might straight-up fail. I'd be willing to bet that at least one company has already failed due to betting too heavily on LLMs.
That isn't to say that LLMs have no uses. But just that CEOs willing something to work isn't sufficient to make it work.