Comment by deadbabe

All the new “advances” in AI (LLMs) will mostly be from better context engineering. The core feature of an intelligent response for a given prompt will not improve much.

The stuff you mention is unproven in usefulness or is so far away that most software engineers have enough time to wrap up their careers and retire gainfully.

AI has already been integrated with robotics. We have entire factories running entirely with robots in the dark. For mass consumer markets, a floor vacuuming and mopping robot that can also climb stairs is probably peak robotics. They already build world models that map out your entire home and reason about materials and cleanliness.

There’s not much more juice left to squeeze here. The next frontier is genetic programming (biological).