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As we move forward some of the major concepts of software development will disappear. Code will eventually become write only. We won't need to read it, that's

As we move forward some of the major concepts of software development will disappear. Code will eventually become write only. We won't need to read it, that's for a second and third LLM to do. Which for maybe a year or two will be iffy, but in a while, the tranformers won't have any issues generating and auditing code that includes the logging, auth, biz, etc... Also, the money in software development will all be flowing to no-code companies soon. There is no reason to develop a CRUD backend, or a Wizard front end in react. All of that will be deprecated actions. All of that work can be tied up into code emitting LLMs where a QA team can perhaps make sure it all works, but generally it will.

kfj83 2y ago
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bigyabai 2y ago
> Code will eventually become write only. That's not even true of assembly or microcode in today's computers. That goes right beyond iffy and straight into the "no upsides, all downsides" territory.
re-thc 2y ago
> Also, the money in software development will all be flowing to no-code companies soon. There is no reason to develop a CRUD backend, or a Wizard front end in react. This is already a thing, without AI. A large part of the world is powered by Wordpress for example. You also have Shopify for ecommerce, Webflow, Wix and many others for websites, etc. Then there is a long list of no-code / automation solutions like zapier, JIRA (yes, companies use it for automated workflows), n8n, etc. So not eventually, and AI might help / aid it but it's been a thing for a long time.
- almosthere 2y ago
  I don't disagree that a large part of the world runs on shopify/wordpress. But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website. Nor does "wordpress developer" represent even 0.0001% of all high paying software jobs. What I'm referring to is that in the future if a CEO/biz person wants a website + app + game + movie developed, he may barely need to hire anyone. He's going to buy no code products and tell an AI agent what he wants to make. He's not going to hire a team of developers to build it over 2 years and hope for customers.
  - re-thc 2y ago
    > But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website. Depends how you define "small". I know of a country's largest and probably close to monopolistic electronic retailer runs Shopify. Lots of large (stock listed) media outlets run Wordpress. It's definitely not limited to "small shops". > What I'm referring to is that in the future if a CEO/biz person wants a Depends on the industry. E.g. in finance does every build a banking system from scratch? Most buy no code products, e.g. from SAP or other vendors, customize and launches. This is today. Many startups don't actually build from scratch and use no-code builders already. 1 of the pain points is that it doesn't scale. As they continue to evolve this could be fixed. You assume because of prolific bloggers like Uber that everyone builds from scratch etc. Uber was known to be pretty "unique" in that they had too much money and did everything internally. It's the exception. There's a lot more companies (big companies) leveraging open source, using off the shelf products, etc.
- BillyTheMage 2y ago
  Imagine how much of the world runs on poorly-made Excel sheets
  - re-thc 2y ago
    > Imagine how much of the world runs Imagine? It's real... E.g. just recently there was news [0] of the New Zealand's health department (of $16B) is managed by a single Excel. [0]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_sprea...

kfj83 2y ago

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bigyabai 2y ago

> Code will eventually become write only. That's not even true of assembly or microcode in today's computers. That goes right beyond iffy and straight into the "no upsides, all downsides" territory.

re-thc 2y ago

> Also, the money in software development will all be flowing to no-code companies soon. There is no reason to develop a CRUD backend, or a Wizard front end in react. This is already a thing, without AI. A large part of the world is powered by Wordpress for example. You also have Shopify for ecommerce, Webflow, Wix and many others for websites, etc. Then there is a long list of no-code / automation solutions like zapier, JIRA (yes, companies use it for automated workflows), n8n, etc. So not eventually, and AI might help / aid it but it's been a thing for a long time.

almosthere 2y ago
I don't disagree that a large part of the world runs on shopify/wordpress. But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website. Nor does "wordpress developer" represent even 0.0001% of all high paying software jobs. What I'm referring to is that in the future if a CEO/biz person wants a website + app + game + movie developed, he may barely need to hire anyone. He's going to buy no code products and tell an AI agent what he wants to make. He's not going to hire a team of developers to build it over 2 years and hope for customers.
- re-thc 2y ago
  > But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website. Depends how you define "small". I know of a country's largest and probably close to monopolistic electronic retailer runs Shopify. Lots of large (stock listed) media outlets run Wordpress. It's definitely not limited to "small shops". > What I'm referring to is that in the future if a CEO/biz person wants a Depends on the industry. E.g. in finance does every build a banking system from scratch? Most buy no code products, e.g. from SAP or other vendors, customize and launches. This is today. Many startups don't actually build from scratch and use no-code builders already. 1 of the pain points is that it doesn't scale. As they continue to evolve this could be fixed. You assume because of prolific bloggers like Uber that everyone builds from scratch etc. Uber was known to be pretty "unique" in that they had too much money and did everything internally. It's the exception. There's a lot more companies (big companies) leveraging open source, using off the shelf products, etc.
BillyTheMage 2y ago
Imagine how much of the world runs on poorly-made Excel sheets
- re-thc 2y ago
  > Imagine how much of the world runs Imagine? It's real... E.g. just recently there was news [0] of the New Zealand's health department (of $16B) is managed by a single Excel. [0]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_sprea...