The value of all software is going to trend to zero soon.

I don't know why anyone thinks they can sell software anymore.

You're going to sell outcomes.

WheelsAtLarge 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Programming your own app is not practical. It's not worth the time. It's just easier to have someone else do it. I can probably write my own tax software using an LLM but there's no way I will spend the time to do it. It will probably cost me a few grand in tokens and I can't really know if it's accurate without taking lots of time to QA it. As programmers we've always been selling outcomes. No one accepts partially working code. It has to meet specifications. If a programmer can't do that then he/she loses their job. The programing profession is changing but it won't go away anytime soon.

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xboxnolifes 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Software has always been about selling outcomes. People didn't pay for software because they liked that particular ordering of 1s and 0s.

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bluefirebrand 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who has been selling software for the last... 15, 20 years?

SAAS took over the software industry. Software as a Service. If you work in SAAS you sell a service not software

Which is actually why the software industry sucks now. I'd much rather build products to sell than "services"

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CyberDildonics 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know why anyone thinks they can sell software anymore.

Probably because lots of people are still selling software.

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jp0001 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gotta have a moat.

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colesantiago 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This.

I predict in 10 years time the domain will be expired, nobody will play (let alone pay) the games on here.

With software alone there is no moat, and I am surprised that "smart" engineers didn't think of this far ahead.

This is basic economics.

OP, you might as well have donated $2,300 directly to Anthropic.

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id00 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Game is just another creative media like books and movies. Does it mean that you believe that those will get expired too?

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Planktonne 15 hours ago | parent [-]

If you released 80 poorly-written abridged copies of popular novels, I think you'd also struggle to make much money.

	▲	legocoder 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Important to have those as a foundation or base, to introduce own custom games with broader audience and control the market economy on my own page. My plan is to save on marketing if I already have the user.
	▲	id00 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Actually it was my fault misreading the comment I replied to. Initially I've read the meaning of it as the whole domain of video games will "get expired" with the advancement of AI. After re-reading it, I totally agree with the comment message