> Writing software has never been difficult.

That's not true at all, sure CRUD might not have been that difficult, but absolutely there is extremely complicated software out there that is really difficult to write in a performant and correct manner.

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wg0 an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes. Audio, video encoders, decoders etc, 3D modeling, rendering etc.

That too is "domain" even it feels like it is NOT. Domain of signal processing, Euclidian spaces, information theory and what not. Thar too is all "domain" and that "domain" part is difficult to write.

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theLiminator an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then what do you mean by pure software? I think there's essentially zero domain-free software.

	▲	dapperdrake 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I prefer co-domain free software. Has no side-effects.

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asdff 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is kind of funny though how all this hand wringing on performance, graphics, quality quality quality, has just resulted in basically same stuff as what I was doing with my computer in 2000 but with enormous resource use in comparison. Still playing games, still same old discussion forums/social media/whatever on the internet, same email and office suite, same chat, same media players, same everything. I can't even see the difference between 1080p and 4k from a couch, and people are trying to sell me 8k to watch the same stuff.

It just does not matter. The ideas matter. Novel functionality matters. But that isn't what any of that is. Same old. And the effort spent, the resources, the energy. All for more polygons on Lara Croft.

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saulpw 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

I mostly agree with you, but you couldn't have have meaningful live videochat between continents in 2000.

	▲	asdff 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That took until skype in 2003 I guess. The idea is pretty old though and people were trying for it for a while from different angles.

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threethirtytwo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You do realize that all the domains you used in your example are trivial for an LLM to write?