>the biggest trade-off is a lack of technical innovation.
replyMost businesses and developers shouldn't be innovating, but instead providing secure solutions to their clients. The last 30 years of "innovation" has given us countless security bugs.
Just like GPs argument about quality; the majority of businesses doesnt need innovation and often even fights it.
replyI’ve been in the industry for a much shorter period than both of you; but the companies I worked for didnt really innovate anything.
Businesses in a competitive market need some kind of innovation to do better than their competition. This doesn't have to be software of course, but often software does play some part in it. And it doesn't mean it's their in-house software, but someone has to develop it after all.
replyMost innovation is pointless, because a lot of it revolves around just making code easier to maintain and understand for humans, it’s not like you’re innovating radical new algorithms for a CRUD app or making performance modifications that people will actually notice.
replyBut since AI writes everything anyway, innovations that improve “developer experience” are pointless, and all the other low hanging fruit has been taken.
What I wonder then is...is it going to be the final word on the evolution of software development? AI has been trained on practices that were developed by people, by professionals and amateurs, by discussions on discussion boards, at tech events, through written books and then disseminated across open source projects. If no one writes code anymore then how to write and build software projects will never evolve beyond the 2022 state of affairs.
replyIt seems like we have more innovation around "developer(=agent) experience" than ever. Look at all the people building various agent control plane systems, containers, isolation, issue tracking, project management etc.
replyinnovation is about being able to reach for better solutions to problems where previously it would "take too long". e.g. DSLs.
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