| ▲ | mixdup 8 hours ago |
| Unlikely. The future will be some people will do this, but honestly I think it will largely be people who were already tinkering with building things, whether full on software development or not My mom and dad, my brother who drives a dump truck in a limestone quarry, my sister-in-law, none of them work in tech or consider themselves technical in any way. They are never, ever going to write their own software and will continue to just download apps from the app store or sign up for websites that accomplish the tasks they want |
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| ▲ | bmurphy1976 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Some of us will do this, and it will be great for us for a period of time. That is, until others build another giant ball of shit 10,000x bigger than the npm/nodejs/javascript/java/cobol/c++/whatever else garbage pile we have today. We'll be right back here in no-time. |
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| ▲ | tclancy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, I think (completely biased as a long-time developer who is happily playing with AI for building stuff) people using AI to build their own tooling will be like a hot rod scene from the '60s. Lots of buzz, definitely some cool stuff, but in reality probably physically smaller than the noise around it. Off to bust my virtual knuckles on something. |
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| ▲ | delfinom 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The future is either a regression of society from the resulting riots and massacres when 3/4 of the population is unemployed. Or perpetual work camps for the masses. |
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| ▲ | shermantanktop 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Can you name me another time when humanity has run out of useful work to do? Was it when we tamed fire, invented the wheel, writing, or double entry bookkeeping? All of which appear more consequential than current AI. We’ll always have something to do. And humans like doing things. | | |
| ▲ | majormajor 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The claim of the AI true-believers is that this time it will be different because of the "general" nature of it. Fire can't build a house. The wheel can't grow crops. Writing can't set a broken bone. Double entry bookkeeping can't write a novel. If you believe that this AI+robotics wave will be able to do anything a human can do with fewer complaints, what would the humans move on to? | | |
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| ▲ | alwillis 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Unlikely. The future will be some people will do this, but honestly I think it will largely be people who were already tinkering with building things, whether full on software development or not Billions of dollars of stock market value disappeared because of the concern AI can create core SaaS functionality for corporations instead of them spending millions of dollars in licensing fees to SAP, Microsoft, etc. This not about tinkering. SaaS As We Know It Is Dead: How To Survive The SaaS-pocalypse! - https://www.forrester.com/blogs/saas-as-we-know-it-is-dead-h... Why SaaS Stocks Have Dropped—and What It Signals for Software’s Next Chapter - https://www.bain.com/insights/why-saas-stocks-have-dropped-a... Jim Cramer says AI fears have made the stock market fragile - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/jim-cramer-says-ai-fears-hav... |
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| ▲ | samplatt 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | >Billions of dollars of stock market value disappeared because of the concern That's really the key, right there. The value disappeared because of concern, not of anything real. When ungodly amounts of money is governed entirely by vibes, it's hardly surprising they lose ungodly amounts of money to vibe-coding. The downside is the effects of all that money shifting is very real :( | |
| ▲ | jdub 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Did you see the network security stock sell-off after Anthropic announced a code security analysis feature? There's a sliver of nothing between mob mentality and wisdom of the crowd. | | |
| ▲ | scuff3d 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's too soon to bother making predictions. Shits gonna be wild for the next few years, then some type of market correction will happen, and we'll start to get an idea of how things will actually look. | | |
| ▲ | luckman212 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Can we please have some calm, stable, boring years please, before I'm dead? The last 5 years have already been "wild" enough. The world is unrecognizable. I'm unprepared for further wildness. | | |
| ▲ | scuff3d 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Excluding the batshit insane political side, I don't actually think it's been as nuts as people think, or at least not uniformly so. I have a lot of friends in the tech sector, but outside the FANNG/silicone valley/startup bubbles. It's been largely business as normal across the board. Twitter and social media warps our perspective I think. | | |
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| ▲ | jcgrillo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The market is losing its shit over this because people are operating on the thesis that "AI will be able to ..." rather than "AI can demonstrably do ...". At some point they're all gonna get margin called on their futurisms. It would be a lot better if, before getting excited, we ask to see experimental results. So you say you have a world-beating security tool? Show me something it can do that all the other ones can't. That would be worth getting excited about, not a vague blog post about vibes and dreams. |
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| ▲ | mixdup 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh no Bain and Jim Cramer think software is dead. All that is is a signal to buy software stocks |
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