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> Cheaper software means people are going to want more of it. This is the key insight. Most software today is built for the common user (individual, business,
by jumploops 2y ago
> Cheaper software means people are going to want more of it.
This is the key insight.
Most software today is built for the common user (individual, business, etc.).
With the cost of writing curly braces and semi-colons dropping drastically, we’ll actually see an increase in the number of programmers worldwide.
This will come at some cost; your average Wordpress agency will need to evolve or get eaten, similarly so if you primarily build CRUD apps.
As more software is written, the upper bound should also go higher. Great engineers will be greater, both in capability and compensation.
LLMs are the new compiler, and the world of software is going to get a lot more bespoke.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoThis cannot be true forever or for everything. I don't want cheaper software controls in my car. I want physical buttons. I don't want unpredictable and worse-than-human self driving at any price, not even if you paid me. (That my kids are beta tester pedestrians for the neighborhood Teslas is at regulatory failure IMO.)
- randcraw 2y ago> LLMs are the new compiler, and the world of software is going to get a lot more bespoke. This is true only if your data sources and sinks are accessible, well documented, and their governing app is cooperative, such that your LLM coding tool can get access to it. For instance, if you want to add a custom filter email plugin, your email app has to provide a plugin API and document it, thereby enabling a LLM-based development tool to seek and find all the necessary hooks for you. But is doing that in the interest of the email app's vendor? If not, no amount of AI will be able to add value to that app, ever.
- senordevnyc 2y agoI think the API in that case is just going to be the browser.