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> people want good software Absolutely! We’re in an interesting time, and LLMs are certainly over-hyped. With that said, I’d argue that most software today is
by jumploops 1y ago
> people want good software
Absolutely! We’re in an interesting time, and LLMs are certainly over-hyped.
With that said, I’d argue that most software today is _average_. Not necessarily bad by design, but average because of the (historic) economies of software development.
We’ve all seen it: some beloved software tool that fills a niche. They raise funding/start to scale and all of a sudden they need to make this software work for more people.
The developers remove poweruser features, add functionality to make it easier to use, and all of a sudden the product is a shell of its former self.
This is what excites me about LLMs. Now we can build software for 10s or 100s of users, instead of only building software with the goal (and financial stability) of a billion users.
My hope is that, even with tons of terrible vibe coded atrocities littering the App Store/web, we’ll at least start to see some software that was better than before, because the developers can focus on the forest rather than each individual tree (similar to Assembly -> C -> Python).