What sort of assurances can I get from that weekend project? I think we're going to build even more obscene towers of complexity as nobody knows how anything works anymore, because they choose not to.
No not really. The people that are behind the LLMs don't really know why it keeps getting better with more compute and data, they are literally just trying shit. Yet, the world has seen just how useful the thing is. We don't have any assurances from the damn thing, yet it's the most useful thing we ever made (at least software-wise).