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> I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products. They are, in every case I've seen, cr
by joshstrange 2y ago
> I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products.
They are, in every case I've seen, creating software _demos_. Those things will fall over under their own weight with 1-2 more iterations.
Someone with no code experience can say "Make snake!" and for other contrived examples and maybe even add a handful of features but very quickly they will code themselves into a corner that they can't get out of. Heck, I sometimes go 3-4 prompts deep on something with Aider then git reset back once it turns out something isn't going to work out.
If some has _fully launched_ a product using only AI to write _all_ the code (Press X to doubt) then it's either a product that will never grow past its initial feature set and/or something trivially copied (with or without AI).
What AI tools may change is the ability for "ideas people" to create a basic MVP (Of the tool itself, I don't think you are going to get an LLM to churn out a whole SaaS codebase without a developer guiding) and raise interest/funding/recruit-others. That's not the "barrier to entry" lowering, that's just a "better slide deck".