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avaertoday at 2:11 AM3 repliesview on HN

For a hundred years software was inscrutable enough to normies that you could be an artisan. But most professions haven't had that luxury for a long, long time. Try making and selling pretty much anything else you built by hand.

Now it's software people's turn to feel the pain of being a starving artist and watch as your attractive friends with no skills and a social media presence "make it" with their genius.

We haven't even begun to feel the weight of it yet.


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agentultratoday at 2:40 AM

There are cabinet makers who still make pieces by hand with hand tools. They charge whatever they want and do well. Not everything is Ikea.

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gumbytoday at 2:37 AM

I remember the same at the advent of desktop publishing

atomicnumber3today at 2:26 AM

What doomerism. I really don't see it.

Slop has always been cheap. Now it's even cheaper. But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.

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