Search Github for anything with a code assistant as a contributor? > If coding is a nearly solved problem, if AI is making it so easy to make anything, why are

Search Github for anything with a code assistant as a contributor? > If coding is a nearly solved problem, if AI is making it so easy to make anything, why aren't we seeing the market flood with cheap alternatives to software that we all use daily and hate? Because that is a business problem, not an LLM and software problem. Perhaps coding isn't the solution for those problems, but companies that can potentially become profitable enough to be competitors to more expensive alternatives. Is a company an alternative to Terraform and Vault? Or OpenTofu and OpenBao, for example. Microsoft Teams won because Microsoft bundles it for free, even though it's garbage. You use it because that's what a CFO or CIO picked. Code doesn't build systems (for profits and non profits) to continually operate and improve software; people do. Everyone else has mentioned how non-AI alternatives exist. You should ask "Why aren't they used?" and "What would it take for cheaper and/or better alternatives to be used?" LLMs might, but might not be, a tool to change the outcome. https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/