alt Hacker NewsI don't think any of this makes much sense. The problem that this article ignores is that people build different things with AI, not the same things but faster. They build more superficial things, more throwaway things, things that are tailor-made for chasing the buck, and it just doesn't feel genuine or interesting.
It was much the same with search. Google search allowed us to find things faster at first...but over time websites responded to that and started doing SEO crap. Now almost every search results in a billion websites that say the same thing, but shallowly. Yes you can still find some gems but was it worth it?
AI makes things faster, but now it means we can target superificial needs very quickly...and so a new breed of crap software will be built with it. As long as there's a dollar sign at the end of the road.
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AI makes things faster, and it pushes the envelope on what can be built. Like a telescope lets the human eye see further into space, an LLM helps track more ideas and structures within working memory. Yes, people will use this new potential to build slop. And other people will use it to build what has never been built before. The only question is which one we will prefer.
I don't understand this argument. Why do you think everyone is "chasing the buck"? That describes 0% of the work I've done over the last 6 months. There's no "bucks" in the music players, macro trackers, and source code review tools I've built.