Dependency: AI Edition
After xkcd #2347, “Dependency”CC BY-NC 2.5
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Everything above the pillar was rewritten this year. Nobody has emailed Nebraska since 2003.
Appears in Where Does Software Engineering Go From Here? (Part 1)
Transcript
Title — DEPENDENCY: AI EDITION.
A vast, teetering tower of blocks — models, frameworks, agents, wrappers around wrappers — stacked into the clouds, each one resting on the one beneath it. Bits of it rattle and lean. The whole tower comes down to a single thin pillar near the base.
Arrow, bottom right — A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003.