> The barrier to entry is lower than it’s ever been.

I don't see a web full of projects created by people who aren't technical. A substantial number of young people grew up on phones and iPads and might not even understand filesystems well enough to have the imagination to create things like this. So the power exists, but the people who are taking best advantage to me seem like the people who were building stuff before the LLMs came to be.

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hackyhacky 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't see a web full of projects created by people who aren't technical.

Sure, but this is very new technology. It will take some time for the idea of building software easily to seep into the public consciousness. In that time, AI will get better and the barrier to entry will get even lower.

For comparison, the internet has been around in some form since the 1960s (more-or-less: depending on the exact technology that you consider to represent its beginning), but it took until the late 1990s or even early 2000s before most people were aware of it, and longer than that before it became central to their lives. I would expect the development of AI-coding-for-the-masses to happen much faster, but not instantaneously.

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bigbuppo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

So the internet is newer than AI?

	▲	hackyhacky an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The internet is older than LLMs.

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dismalaf 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What's a "project"? How about a Shopify store? A Substack or WordPress site?