Post by @felipe@social.treehouse.systems

@felipe@social.treehouse.systems

2026-05-13 09:23 UTC

@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?

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@johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 2026-05-13 09:41

@felipe@social.treehouse.systems @daisy@cloudisland.nz > but not necessarily actually changed what could be done by them technically I think you radically underestimate what some people are doing with LLMs. These people are obviously a touch more technical than, say, my mam, but they're not people who ever would have been comfortable stitching together Python and SQL. Except now they're hooking their life together in ways that would have been unimaginable before. And this technology is, what, let's say 2 consumer years old? Imagine it in 2 more. 5 more. 10. These people I'm talking about don't 'care about apps' in the same way that we do. They just want their computer to do a thing for them. And, again: that was never possible. Now it is. Everything's changed.

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