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Here's a scenario that might be possible in the future: Person: I need a website to sell shoes. Here's my brand and logo. Here's a selection of what the produc
by gardenhedge 4y ago
Here's a scenario that might be possible in the future:
Person: I need a website to sell shoes. Here's my brand and logo. Here's a selection of what the product looks like.
5 seconds later.. AI: I've generated 5 prototype sites and deployed them to URL1, URL2 .. URL5. Please review and select one.
Person: URL3 looks great. Let's get that deployed and add all the shoes in this CSV. Monitor the site and make any changes to increase engagement and sales.
- alkonaut 4y agoThat kind of cookie-cutter site generation is already kind of possible without AI. The AI might dream up the design (which is cool, and certainly a threat to designers). But all the hard parts of actual logic that would be unique to this project still needs to be specified, implemented, verified. Now you might say: but what's so special about a shoe store? Payment, inventory, shopping carts, databases - it can all be the same as every other shoe store! But that's the key takeaway here. If you work in something where the next deployment has much in common with the last one: then your job is at risk. But these jobs have been eaten by SaaS for a long time. An "online store as a service" was a thing long before AI. Could AI help take over this type of software development even more? Sure. But that's like machines taking over dull industrial jobs. We shouldn't worry about being out of a job, we should be happy that we can do more interesting things than what the machines can do, just like we could stop weaving fabric.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoWhy would I need or want an AI to do that? I'd rather pay 40 bucks to Shopify than have to deal with deploying and maintaining code generated by an AI.