On the other hand, this is an example of a new category of tools: things made by individuals scratching an itch, that wouldn't have been made otherwise because the barrier to entry was too high.

There will always be a need for high quality human-reviewed software, but I think we should celebrate this too.

> There was a time people took pride in writing high quality software.

And other people have always churned out low-quality software that solves a problem they have in a specific way. This is just sort of accelerating

From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existing gives it a shot at improvement. The alternative is it doesn’t exist.

Was there? Software has always been a "speed of delivery over correctness" discipline. LLMs will just crank that up to 11.

- user reports a bug

- dev asks vibes for help

- llm rewrites half of the files

- it does seem to fix the bug

- 50 more bugs enter the chat

I know, YAML has that effect on me too!