That was a weird comparison and I didn't understand what was meant exactly. Are you trying to say that remote work is somehow putting a burden on organizations? If so, probably wrong organizations have been in your radar.
I got sick of remote work by 2018. I quit freelancing, took on a full time job in hopes of just spending time with other humans. I wasn't the only one - co-working spaces just boomed and peaked in 2019 with WeWork.
But after lockdown, 4/5 of the co-working spaces in my city shut down. The same people who did co-working spaces started their own businesses and would criticize remote work. Remote work basically went back to 2008 levels, even with new tech like Slack, Zoom, etc. Hybrid is probably best, but people overshot for no reason.
I think with AI, if you were early enough to work with langchain, there's some hints that they tried writing langchain with AI. The architecture was all over the place. Some bits were overengineered. Context windows grew faster than the scaffolding that was designed to handle small context windows.
GPT-5 is the lockdown event. You have the tech now to work fully with AI... it just stops being vibe, and starts being invasive. It's more judgemental. It changes code in a way you don't want it to. We'll probably be in a better place next year, but by then, people have lost their appetite for AI assistants.
