>Do you feel that you have no use for such comprehensive products?
replyI don't have the time to use them because I'm working on my own comprehensive projects that other people won't use because they're working on their own comprehensive projects. I joke, but it does feel that way sometimes.
>Have you never thought, "Man, I really wish that there was software to do XYZ, but programming it would be too much work, even with current AI?
Only speaking for myself, I've already built all the ideas I've had in my head my entire career. There doesn't seem to be anything coming along to replace those ideas. I suppose I might not be creative enough in my advancing years, I don't know.
Dare to dream!
replyThe average person uses social media, and Microsoft office suite. They really don’t require much else. Social media doesn’t get disrupted by software, and MS Office was already disrupted by Google suite, if you didn’t make the transition then, you ain’t gonna make it now.
reply20 years ago the average person used a hoe and a cooking pot on three rocks over a wood fire. Now they use WhatsApp, and in a few months they'll be using ChatGPT, but not Microsoft Office. But I wasn't talking to the average person. I was talking to djeastm.
replyNot sure what your cohort for "average person" is, but 20 years ago was 2006 not ancient rome. We had avoided the millenium crisis, and I was playing Counter Strike against people over the internet.
replyMy reference group for "average person" is people. (What else could it possibly be?) There are 8.3 billion of them now, and there were 6.7 billion 20 years ago. 02007 (19 years ago) was the year when the median person transitioned from living in the country, either on a farm or herding livestock, to living in a town or city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization#cite_ref-urbaniza...
replyOne side of my family has lived in cities and towns for over 100 years, but they were not average.