Yes, which is why every successful company has exactly 4 people and no more. Collaboration goes beyond your immediate team members - if you work for an organization, you’re supported by it in ways you may take for granted. Replace this structure with AI models, and the whole thing would fall apart.

The collaboration aspect is what many AI enthusiasts miss. As humans, our success is dependent on our ability to collaborate with others. You may believe that AI could replace many individual software engineers, but if it does so at the expense of harming collaboration, it’s a massive loss. AI tools are simply not good at collaborating. When you add many humans to a project, the result becomes greater than the sum of its parts. When you add many AI tools to a project, it quickly becomes a muddled mess.

Way too many people have tied their egos to the success of AI.

This is just standard automation, which always increases the scope and size of the economy. Automation actually results in a net increase in jobs.

Is “world models” even a real thing, or just the latest AI buzzword?