Questioning the Impact of AI on Software Development: Why No Proliferation of New Applications?
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lemonlime227
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
The article is a discussion about the impact of AI on programming, questioning why despite AI's transformative potential (comparable to StackOverflow and Google), there hasn't been a proliferation of new game-changing software, fixes to long-standing open-source issues, or even trivial new applications. The author acknowledges using AI daily and saving hours on specific tasks but notes it hasn't delivered the massive 10x productivity boost expected.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWhy hasn't there been a profusion of new game-changing software, fixes to long-standing issues in open-source software, any nontrivial shipped product at all?
Heck, why isn't there a cornucopia of new apps, even trivial ones? Where is all the shovelware?
AI is at least as game-changing for programming as StackOverflow and Google were back in the day.
I use it every day, and it's saved me hours of work for certain specific tasks.
But it's simply not a massive 10x
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