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> your analogy I don't think AI does mass-produced paperbacks It's the article's analogy, not mine. And, are you really saying that people aren't regularly mass-vibing terrible software that others use...? That seems to be a primary use case... Though, yes, I'm sure it'll become more common for many people to vibe their own software - even if just tiny, temporary, fit-for-purpose things.
I think existing skilled programmers are leveraging AI to increase productivity. I think there are some people with limited, or no, programming experience who are vibe coding small apps out of nothing. But I think this is a tiny fraction of people. As much as the AI might write code, the tools used to do that, plus compile, distribute etc are still very developer focused. Sure, one day my pastor might be able to down…
Missing the point. The barrier to make software has lowered substantially. This not makes mediocre devs less mediocre and for a lot of businesses out there being slightly less mediocre is all they need most of the time. Needing decent devs 20-40% of the time is already a big win in terms of expenses. Making small quick mediocre software that later on you need a decent dev for a couple of months to clean as opposed to pay and keep that dev for several years to make the software from scratch.
Yes, it is not very efficient, but neither are those Cobol apps in old banks. It's always about it being just good enough that it works not beautifully crafted software that never breaks. The market can stay alive longer than you can keep a high salary job as a very experienced dev when you are competing against 100 other similarly experienced devs for your job.