| ▲ | voidhorse 20 hours ago | |
It has no value, and you can tell basically immediately. People are becoming extremely lazy and shipping the first slop the model generates because they get a rush from putting their stuff in tot he world as fast as possible. However, I would bet significant money that all the projects like this (where every aspect has hallmark slopisms (the vibe interface design, the copy) will lose out to projects that are also heavily AI coded but that took the time and care to actually polish and differentiate themselves and thus are later to the game because they shipped after a few weeks or a month of work and refinement instead of a day. AI can save you a lot of time but it can't save you from your own lack of restraint and your inability to discern and be an objective judge of the value your thing will have to other people. For software, mere existence is no longer sufficient anymore. Anyone can generate whatever you made instantly if you put zero effort or discernment into it. This is why so many of the Ainfluencers are emphasizing "taste". But even taste won't save you on the end either, since anyone can clone your stuff as soon as it ships. I personally think the future of software is probably just two extremes: 1. Personal dinky vibe coded apps that all have their individual creator as the sole user. 2. Large scale apps that don't work without significant marshaling of hard physical resources (e.g. LLMs themselves). All the middle bits, user applications that target a specific problem space but that run locally and/or don't need legions of data centers and networks to run, will probably just die eventually. Maybe a couple of established apps will stick around in business contexts because employees all using their own personal apps and workflows causes too much coordination overhead, but at the consumer level I fully except everyone will be just vibing their own stuff pretty soon here. | ||
| ▲ | jasomill 8 hours ago | parent [-] | |
I doubt it, as the principle of "garbage in, garbage out" still very much applies to LLMs. With or without AI, I'm not so naive to assume I'm going to quickly produce better software to solve well-established problems than others, with access to the same tools, who have put more time and effort into producing substantially similar software. For specific and uncommon use cases? Sure. For something as generally applicable as a photo editor or a general purpose OS? Not a chance. | ||