alt Hacker NewsAgreed. It is ironic that in the AI race, the real differentiation may not come from how smart the model is, but from who builds the best application layer on top of it. And that application layer is built with the same kind of software these models are supposed to commoditize.
This feels like *nix.
Developers built themselves really good OSes for doing developer things. Actually using it to do things was secondary.
Want to run a web server? Awesome choice. Want to write networking code? Great. Setup a reliable DB with automated backups? Easy peasy.
Want a stable desktop environment? Well after almost 30 years we just about have one. Kind of. It isn't consistent and I need to have a post it note on my monitor with the command to restart plasma shell, but things kind of work.
Current AI tools are so damn focused on building developer experiences, everything else is secondary. I get it, developers know how to fix developer pain points, and it monitizes well.
But holy shit. Other things are possible. Someone please do them. Or hell give me a 20 or 30 million and I'll do it.
But just.... The obvious is sitting out there for anyone who has spent 10 minutes not being just a developer.