I don't know much about this topic but you still need the magic bricks in the printer to make the magic bricks though, no?
I guess this can be either depressing or relieving but I'm in the former category, I wish you could do this stuff from sand or something, without relying on modern technology, would be fun.
In my mind the printer counts as a tool so it's a different category. Also you could always do the same by hand with a mask. The feature size might be a bit larger though.
As to doing it all "from sand". You can! At least sort of. It's always a question of how far down the stack you want to take it. After all you probably need to source rare earths from somewhere that isn't your backyard.
Check out pictures of the old processes before automated VLSI. It was all done by hand including crystalizing the silicon. You'll need a clean room and a bunch of weird supplies though.
Well I guess I'm in the former category but what do you expect us "the people" to do about it?
I don't think you should halt progress just because people would lose jobs because people create and do jobs because there is something that needs to be done.
If we keep them around just so people have jobs then we're running an adult kindergarten which makes no sense to me.
Besides, there will be jobs that can't be done by AI for a long time to come and the current AIs are relatively crappy compared any average software dev.
I wonder why this is such a popular topic even, to me it feels like if you'd use one of these LLMs for more than a week you'd start to see why it's incapable of replacing anything major.
