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I have watched artists thoughtfully integrate digital lighting and the like at a scale I'd never seen before the LLMs rolled up and made it possible to get programs to work without knowing how to program.

The fundamental ceiling of what an LLM can do when connected to an IDE is incredible, and orders of magnitude higher than the limits of any no-code / low-code platform conceived thus far. "Democratizing" software - where now the only limits are your imagination, tenacity, and ability to keep the bots aligned with your vision, is allowing incredible things that wouldn't have happened otherwise because you now don't strictly need to learn to program for a programming-involved art project to work out.

Should you learn how to code if you're doing stuff like that? Absolutely. But is it letting people who have no idea about computing dabble their feet in and do extremely impressive stuff for the low cost of $20/month? Also yes.

by mikestorrent1 hours ago|

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Now this is the right take. It's one thing for us to do navel-gazing into the recursive autononomous future; it's another to step back and see what Normal People can do, now that the walls are coming down around our profession. Creating new walls is probably not the answer! From the Cathedral and Bazaar, we now have an entire metaphorical city of development happening, by people who would not have thought it possible a few years ago.

I don't know what the future of my job holds other than what it always had: helping people who have good ideas to get them done properly.

by emporas1 hours ago|

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Emacs can be configured with no code written by the user and Linux can be controlled with minimal user knowledge of the command line. Still some knowledge is necessary in most cases, but nowhere near what was required a handful of years back.

by code4life22 minutes ago|

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I’m not sophisticated enough to enjoy abstract art. Maybe AI will bring abstract software projects to the world next.

I can imagine all the people staring at these software projects amazed at the genius it must have taken to create them. :)

by didgetmaster1 hours ago|

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I see the next really big task for software as the ability to separate the signal from the noise. Sifting the wheat from the chaff has gone from a 'nice to have' to 'rescue my sanity'.

Maybe agents and AI in general will help with that. Maybe it will just make the problem worse.

by chickensong52 minutes ago|

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> But it's largely done now

Somehow I doubt that. The monkey is never satisfied.

by nizsle2 hours ago|

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Agree. Productivity tools all the way down.