This is some insane self aggrandizement of the work of a software engineer.

20$ Claude making some app that a skilled engineer could make in a few weekends doesn’t change the face of earth. Actually if Claude made the world’s greatest embroidery software that no human could ever make, it still doesn’t matter because frankly most software does not matter much. Your average house has more meaning and longevity than a piece of software.

Sure, but that requires a skilled engineer to own the embroidery machine, and have sufficient free time and interest to devote to reverse engineering the embroidery machine. The overlap of skills and expertise there is vanishingly small for niche products, which, most discontinued products are. Not to mention that reverse engineering is an even more arcane and niche skill set that not every skilled engineer possesses.

Any reduction in e-waste and user empowerment is a cause to be celebrated. The catalyst for GNU was not being able to fix printer drivers. For all its evils and ills, I am so happy to see useless objects essentially being “repaired” by normal people using LLM assisted coding. Software ate the world, but now that the world can make its own software it, for the time being, tips the balance back in favor of the common man.

Its odd how excited people are by this. It's software engineers solving a problem created by software engineers (in the most expensive and inefficient way possible). Machine control software doesn't need a cloud subscription in the first place.

With many fundamental real problems in the world - resource shortage, pollution, wealth inequality, disease. Watching a circle jerk about AI "fixing" an artificially created non-problem is just bizarre and a waste of resources.