Part of the issue with "shipping" AI-generated code is, what's the value of shipping something that your prospective customers could just make for themselves? Shipping a product used to be the gold standard of value, but I'm not sure it is anymore, the zeitgeist just yet has to catch up.

I think it does have pretty good value when you are your own customer, because you can make exactly what you need. For instance, I'm using it to make a web playground in which I can test the board game I'm designing, instead of asking people to pay for, and install Tabletop Simulator. I'm satisfied. I can tell the code sucks without even looking at it. But I wouldn't have had the time to do this myself, the token cost isn't prohibitive, and it works fine.

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shepherdjerred 2 days ago | parent [-]

Most people still prefer products over building their own thing, even if the barrier is lower.

As an example consumer 3D printing hasn’t had much impact on manufacturing

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dofm 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is a bit of a year-of-linux-on-the-desktop question.

Desktop 3D printers are tools; I know many people using them to support their making. And they've utterly changed manufacturing on another level (simply because of their ability to surface a prototype).

It will get better and better and better and still never replace mass production, but mass production will be changed by it.

Not least because of the fundamental shift in availability of the tools to make tools. The productised desktop CNC market is wild and it owes almost its entire existence to the change in the market driven by 3D printing.

	▲	shepherdjerred a day ago \| parent [-]
		Sorry I am not saying that X technology is not important, transformative, etc. I am saying that the average person is going to want to just have things that work. They are not going to want to have a hobby of using X technology. It doesn't matter how much you lower the barrier to entry on making apps, websites, games, whatever. Most people are just going to want something that is ready and off-the-shelf. I mean, why do people pick an iPhone over a cheaper Android even if they are functionally similar? Aside from the (valid) green-bubble/social aspect, it's a much more polished product.