When a blinking cursor on a screen awaited my input for the very first time, I could not possibly have anticipated that this technology would soon open up a whole new dimension for the world to live in. Having been born about six months after the Beatles split up, I happened to be in the right place at the right time when a bunch of nerds succeeded in bringing computers to the home.
Now, after more than 40 years of coding as a hobby and over 25 years of software engineering as a profession, once again a blinking cursor (caret, really) awaits my input. Only this time the machine answers in far more elaborate ways than simply stating "ERROR". The more I use AI, the more evident it becomes to me that this is not just another paradigm shift like web, mobile, or cloud were.
This is a new beginning. A new dimension is opening up.
The new rules are that there will be all new rules.
And that we do not yet know any of these new rules.
