alt Hacker News> Ultimately, it is pragmatic for businesses to behave this way, but it is a shame for those who love the craft. I think we took for granted the beautiful ornate hand carved furniture era of software engineering. We are now in the ikea era.
I feel this so much. I thought AI would make it easier to get lots of hand-carved ornate furniture; but right now what we are getting looks like the typical Ikea product line -- a bunch of mismatched pieces by a host of different designers with no common underlying design theme or continuity (I'm talking specifically about the looks and design, not the materials).
If your output is based on best next result, it will tend toward the mode, not even the median.
I have to assume the most common [insert thing] is going to be bad, because more people are amateurs at [insert thing] than are experts. Right?
I have never expected excellence from chatbot generated anything. I have always expected just good enough.