[bartvk]

I deeply hate the people that use AI to poison the music, video or articles that I consume. However I really feel that it can possibly make software cheaper.

A couple of years ago, I worked for an agency as a dev. I had a chat with one of the sales people, and he said clients asked him why custom apps were so expensive, when the hardware had gotten relatively cheap. He had a much harder time selling mobile apps.

Possibly, this will bring a new era of decent macOS desktop and mobile apps, not another web app that I have to run in my browser and have no control over.

[tonyedgecombe]

>Possibly, this will bring a new era of decent macOS desktop and mobile apps, not another web app that I have to run in my browser and have no control over.

There has been no shortage of mobile apps, Apple frequently boasts that there are over 2 million of them in the App Store.

I have little doubt there will be more, whether any of the extra will be decent remains to be seen.

[vrighter]

ai is trained on the stuff already written. Software has been taking a nosedive for ages (ex, committing to shipping something in 6 months before one even figures out what to put in it). If anything shit will get worse due to the deskilling being caused by ai.

[wtetzner]

I kinda feel like we're at a point where it would be much more valuable to have higher quality software than more software.

[skzizjj]

This is just the outsourcing argument all over again. Maybe the degrees of difference matters this time?