Someone made a comment the other day about how silly it would be for people to continue using hand tools when the electric motor was invented.
replyThis felt very out of touch for the reason you brought forth: hand-crafted products very often become more valuable in an industry where production is done at-scale. (Provided the hand-crafted product is of high quality.)
We’ve discovered a way to take what someone asks for and generate a lot of relevant code at a significantly lower cost than what it would take to contract out. Maybe for small requests this could be fine for users in the future, but inevitably people will prefer carefully-crafted codebases that provide robust experiences or high reliability.
Average people aren't going to be writing their own software, even with AI tools. They will use AI tools to achieve goals directly and perhaps it will write software in the background (but that would be an implementation detail).
replyYes, thanks, that's what I meant / was trying to say. They want to do X on their computer and formerly they would have had to purchase software to do so; in the future perhaps they will instead ask the AI tool to do X and it will write whatever code is needed to do X. This will work well enough until it doesn't (which is where the "premium" market for handcrafted special-purpose tools might continue to thrive).
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