Just like fast fashion replaced tailors with factory workers and machine operators, fast software will replace programmers with AI operators. And the market will demand many of them. Many more than large software companies employ today.
The new world will need more programmers (AI operators) than it needs now. Because the demand for custom software will soon start growing. Everyone will want their own Photoshop. Every developer will want their own IDE and their own Linux. And they will throw them away without hesitation. Just like I throw away my shoes every year and get new ones.
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Comparing software that can be copied for free, with physical items, is stupid.
“Just like books cost more ink with a big font, webpages cost more data with a big font”
Nope, that doesn’t work, it’s absurd. Which is not surprising from a stupid article trying to argue that slop software is the future.
Now explain ebooks
What about them?
Are they copied for free?
They cost nothing to duplicate, yes, which is why you wouldn’t pay as much as a physical book for it.
What’s your point?
So an ebook reader should cost as much as the sum of every other physical book produced by your logic?
What? How do you even reach such a conclusion?
The words are free your just paying for the 1 format of ink on the page. So you must pay for every format of e-ink on the screen?
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
For a book, there are per-unit costs of the materials, ink, paper, manufacturing, etc.
For an ebook, these are void. So the cost should be, at the very least, much lower than a physical book. Even if you take into account the effort of writing the book and such, it’s an initial cost, so it doesn’t justify a high price.
The point being, physical items have costs related to their physicality, digital items don’t, so they shouldn’t cost as much. It’s pretty straightforward.
And to loop back to my initial comment: that’s why it’s absurd to compare AIs, which are just bullshit for lazy sloppy people, and manufacturing processes, which come from the need to reduce the manufacturing costs of physical items. There is no manufacturing cost of software, so there is no need to mass-produce as fast as possible, and so there is just no reason to let devs throw up slop garbage to go “faster”
Also, on a side note: programming with AIs don’t make you code faster, it just increases the amount of bugs and problems with your code. Obviously, since you’re just using a nonsense generator to try to produce a complex piece of digital machinery.