I might not be a good programmer but I've been a very productive one.

Someone who is good at writing code isn't always good at making money.

Problem with much of this talk is receipts are always nowhere to be found.

But I don't see any receipts from the opposite side either.

You don't see any good software made by people who know how computers work?

You don't see any good software made by people who don't know how CPUs, GPUs, networking work at a deep level?

AI slop books made more money than JK Rowling, too.

Maybe in the future, yea. Most likely not because creating books is much easier now but total reading time can't increase nearly as fast. More books chasing the same amount of reading time.

To be fair, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they were better than barfs onto a page. She's not exactly Tolkien