voidhorse 10 days ago

I think the software industry will look just like the material goods space post-industrialization after the dust settles:

Large corporations will use AI to deliver low-quality software at high speed and high scale.

"Artisan" developers will continue to exist, but in much smaller numbers and they will mostly make a living by producing refined, high-quality custom software at a premium or on creative marketplaces. Think Etsy for software.

That's the world we are heading for, unless/until companies decide LLMs are ultimately not cost beneficial or overzealous use of them leads to a real hallucination induced catastrophe.

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GarnetFloride 10 days ago

Sounds like fast fashion. The thinnest, cheapest fabric, slapped together as fast as possible with the least amount of stitching. Shipped fast and obsolete fast.

tmpz22 10 days ago

Fast fashion - also ruinous to the environment.