Why I think the AI bubble may never burst
The year was 2020, I had managed to convince the folks at FourthCanvas to allow me build client projects with GatsbyJS and because I had always delivered on previous projects — the trust was already established that Aremu always delivers so they let me. But there was one problem that even BJ and Victor weren’t aware of — I had never infact built anything serious with GatbyJS or ReactJS at the time asides the things I learnt in tutorials; even worse I had just 4 weeks to deliver this project and like most things in the React Ecosystem, there were a million options with styling especially — while I had written a ton of CSS even at that point in my career: I needed something that could take the load of writing CSS while I focused on just the React sides of things.
There was a particular option that looked promising — TailwindCSS.
I learnt programming at a time when the things you watched in a tutorial or read in the docs mostly never behave the way they were described so I have this fear that picking up a new piece of technology for a tight deadline project may not be the best option but I was really willing to give tailwind a shot so I said to myself — If I can install tailwind in this project in a couple of minutes and the sample in the docs work exactly as described, it means that there is no issues I will encounter while working with it that I won’t find answers to and it did just that!
I ended delivering a 4 week project in 3 weeks and I have been writing TailwindCSS since then (approximately 4 years) and I even published a video with almost 7K views on YouTube about it.
Hol’up, Wait a minute… Where is the AI?
I think the AI bubble will never burst because AI in whatever form it is right now — a chatbot, an IDE, a plagiarism checker, a video generator, image generator, it is solving pain points and anything that solves people’s pain never goes away even if it’s imperfect.
