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Just to point... > Is there something wrong with it? > Maybe such tools don't make good marketing. You had the answer the entire time :) Features that requi

Just to point... > Is there something wrong with it? > Maybe such tools don't make good marketing. You had the answer the entire time :) Features that require a brain between the AI and key-presses just don't sell. Don't expect to see them for sale. (But we can still get them for free.)

brookst 1y ago
I don’t think I understand your point. Are you saying that people of a certain competence level lose interest in force-multiplying tools? I don’t think you can be saying that because there’s so much contrary evidence. So what are you saying?
- jachee 1y ago
  Other way around. The masses aren’t interested in force-multiplying tools. They only want to buy force-eliminating tools. They don’t want to work smarter or harder. They don’t want to work at all.
  - brookst 1y ago
    A fairly misanthropic view that hasn’t born out in my experience.
    - jachee 1y ago
      Counterpoint, these are actually the two most-frequently used functions of non-programmers: https://bsky.app/profile/eddelbuettel.com/post/3lvjs26kruc2g https://bsky.app/profile/eddelbuettel.com/post/3lvjs26kruc2g
- marcosdumay 1y ago
  I'm saying they don't sell. Some times people want them so badly that they will self-organize and collaborate outside of a market to make them. But a market won't supply them. And yes, it's a mix of many people not being competent enough to see the value on them, markets putting pressure on companies to listen disproportionately to those people, publicity having a very low signal to noise ratio that can't communicate why a tool is good, and companies not respecting their customers enough to build stuff that is good for them (that last one isn't inherent to a market economy, but it near universal nowadays). Either way, the software market just doesn't sell tools as useful as the GP is talking about.

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Just to point... > Is there something wrong with it? > Maybe such tools don't make good marketing. You had the answer the entire time :) Features that requi

by marcosdumay 1y ago

brookst 1y ago
I don’t think I understand your point. Are you saying that people of a certain competence level lose interest in force-multiplying tools? I don’t think you can be saying that because there’s so much contrary evidence. So what are you saying?
- jachee 1y ago
  Other way around. The masses aren’t interested in force-multiplying tools. They only want to buy force-eliminating tools. They don’t want to work smarter or harder. They don’t want to work at all.
  - brookst 1y ago
    A fairly misanthropic view that hasn’t born out in my experience.
    - jachee 1y ago
      Counterpoint, these are actually the two most-frequently used functions of non-programmers: https://bsky.app/profile/eddelbuettel.com/post/3lvjs26kruc2g https://bsky.app/profile/eddelbuettel.com/post/3lvjs26kruc2g
- marcosdumay 1y ago
  I'm saying they don't sell. Some times people want them so badly that they will self-organize and collaborate outside of a market to make them. But a market won't supply them. And yes, it's a mix of many people not being competent enough to see the value on them, markets putting pressure on companies to listen disproportionately to those people, publicity having a very low signal to noise ratio that can't communicate why a tool is good, and companies not respecting their customers enough to build stuff that is good for them (that last one isn't inherent to a market economy, but it near universal nowadays). Either way, the software market just doesn't sell tools as useful as the GP is talking about.