alt Hacker NewsYeah, this feels like the right comparison. AI, like Excel makes it much easier for people to build useful tools.
And like Excel, software people are gonna end up complaining about the quality and having to maintain these applications.
Yeah, this feels like the right comparison. AI, like Excel makes it much easier for people to build useful tools.
And like Excel, software people are gonna end up complaining about the quality and having to maintain these applications.
Yes. Though with Excel for most business users the choice was between
- lobby the IT department for at least a quarter, then wait at least one quarter, and at the end you get a buggy implementation of your idea that doesn't quite work
- or: spend a weekend hacking together a quick and ugly, buggy spreadsheet prototype of your idea that doesn't quite work.