↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social
what people want usually isn’t as profitable as what the people making stuff want people to want… the trick is finding the symbiosis which is why they pay me the medium sized bucks.
We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us.
The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
