The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people.

The economics of code and carpentry are different though. A really good piece of code to, say, calculate taxes can be written once and used by a million people. Or, a million people might generate a one off piece of slop to calculate their taxes. Which one was more efficient? I do think that disposable easy to validate software will probably never be human written again but I also think that the demand for this type of software is wildly overestimated. Users mostly don't want a bespoke weather app that is customized to their prompt they want one which they can trust.