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I largely agree, but when this point is brought up I always feel the need to go one step further: For the vast majority of software out there, this quality gap
by redhale 2mo ago
I largely agree, but when this point is brought up I always feel the need to go one step further:
For the vast majority of software out there, this quality gap simply doesn't matter. Not everything is big tech, needing internet scale. Most software built by developers at non-tech companies are simple line-of-business apps used by a handful to a few dozen or maybe a few hundred people to do a thing a bit better than the Excel spreadsheet that was used before.
And AI has essentially automated the development of this kind of software. Or rather, it has dramatically increased the ability of skilled developers to produce larger amounts of these kinds of systems.
Excel hardest hit.
- zobzu 2mo agoi don't think people writing this understand how computers work. there is no "Internet scale hard" problem. its reliability, safety, efficiency problems. these problems exist at any scale. ai sucks at it.
- redhale 2mo ago> its reliability, safety, efficiency problems. these problems exist at any scale Respectfully, I disagree. When you have 5 users using an app sandboxed within the corporate firewall that just does some CRUD and basic workflows, these problems you're calling out really just don't matter much. Some do some of the time, but not much. Obviously not all software falls into this category. But so, so much does. Do you know how many thousands of tiny applications are maintained by big all non-big-tech corporations? I've seen many of them up close -- the code is usually complete garbage (seriously, it's bad; and alas, most was written before the age of AI coding agents), and yet, the business continues to operate and use the software.
- myegorov 2mo ago> For the vast majority of software out there, this quality gap simply doesn't matter. You don't mean the majority of paid for software can behave non-deterministically? That's the value add of the human in the loop.
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