If you're in the seat, no one will force you out. They'll leave, but they can't make you leave.
There are large areas of software where the quality of code is measured by the mental model of its human maintainers. For these areas, LLMs are a net negative because their use degrades the mental model of the human maintainers.
So we will have a billion new hello world, stock checker, Calendar, Todo apps, and ...? Just because you have a way to write code fast, doesn't mean you are going to come up with billions of new ideas of what to do with that code, and to be mean about it, most people don't think they are creative enough to come up with ideas and are just fine watching sports all day on tv.
The apple app store currently has 2,362,917 (https://42matters.com/ios-apple-app-store-statistics-and-tre...) apps in the app store, and a lot of those are the same thing, so 0.236% of a billion.
but to be fair, with Cluade I've written at least 10 apps I use every day. If everyone in the world (8.3 billion people) would do this, then we might get close to that billion new apps.
The fact this doesn't appear to be happening suggests something different is in play.
Otherwise it's just sparkling AI-Cheerleader.
This got me thinking on a new way to improve the news: Instead of reporting on the empty words people say, only report on what they have done, example:
a) Elon Musks says SpaceX is the best thing ever worth the most money ever because he is greatest person ever.
as opposed to:
b) SpaceX, run by Elon Musk, is currently Making $X per quarter, they do this by ......
shimman•50m ago
gedy•47m ago
yakshaving_jgt•42m ago
I've seen plenty of both, and I'm sure everything in between exists too.
gedy•38m ago
Good description; that's been the my majority of companies unfortunately.
smrtinsert•23m ago
dijksterhuis•41m ago
He tried to bail me out of some very deep trouble i got myself in. Didn't end up working out, but he was good folk for sticking his neck out for someone on the engineering team when customers were screaming at him over the phone because of my screw up.
Rest of the time, they've been a networking contact of the CEO who has "some tech stuff" on their resume. Last one screwed me over and fucked three years worth of work in one fell swoop (and he admitted he did this for his own gains over slack when challenged on one of my last days at that job). still not over that one.
Traubenfuchs•28m ago
What a tiring world.
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