2026-05-13 09:01 UTC
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@daisy@cloudisland.nz 2026-05-13 09:11
@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io Except there is a difference between a fun toy for the “common person” and a load-bearing dependency for a business or an industry or an entire economy. But even then, the “common person” is going to encounter the LLM’s favourite thing: a local maximum. If they want to actually start writing code themselves, whether because the LLM has hit a wall or Anthropic has jacked the pricing or merely out of curiosity and a desire to learn, they’re going to pop the hood and find huge volumes of truly awful code that a beginner software developer is really going to struggle to make sense of.
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@felipe@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-13 09:23
@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io @daisy@cloudisland.nz I kinda do, but I am not sure I do fully, because for most people having an app that does the thing they wanted was aways a google search away - and yet most people never did, because most people don't care even that much. And then the people who care, especially enough to make an app, always cared a fair bit. So in general it seems we have suddenly given a lot of people permission and confidence from the familiar interface, but not necessarily actually changed what could be done by them technically. Which might be fine and doesn't change your point. Does that make sense?