Recently, Amazon announced a big downsizing plan. Predictably, they claimed what many people feared: they're supposedly replacing many human positions with AI. So... is this it, are we done for? Can we close our IDEs and go raise goats in the countryside?

Ask yourself this question: if you wanted to know for sure if "Dr Lewis Miracle Oil" actually helps prevent hair fall, would you listen to the shady traveling salesman trying to sell it to you? Would you trust your neighbour, who just bought ten packs of it, and is trying to resell you one? It would sound like a suspicious idea. And yet, when we trust what big tech has to say about AI, it is roughly what we are doing.