The future I see is more specialised software. Perhaps sewage management workers need something done, which currently is put up for tender and sales people make claims of what it is you really need, promise the world and a pony, then management looks at the list of promises from everyone. They don't much notion of the problem at hand and the promises are deliberately vague on tricky details, so they go with the one that was cheapest. Then the workers get something that doesn't work and they spend a year doing service requests to get what they want while going massively over budget.

Instead of all of that, if a few of the front line workers had enough knowledge to wrangle a LLM, they can solve the problem they actually have. In that instance you are not paying for the software but paying someone for their time to make it.

This used to be how things worked in general. It wasn't until things could be duplicated for free that there was incentive to jealousy hold onto your ideas and use the monopoly of intellectual property to serve copies to people.

This makes it a pure numbers game and gave vendors an incentive to lock customers in. Enshitification is the blunt end of intellectual property hitting you in the face.

I don't plan on charging for the things I generate with AI.

I could conceive of being paid to make a piece of software using AI, but barring any privacy concerns I'd want the end product to be released as public domain.

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Gardening is the correct answer.

Or maybe like... getting into salt water taffy. That sounds real nice. I want some now.