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The future is perpetually dealing with the fallout from all the vibe coding as the pool of people who'd have a shot at fixing it gets smaller and smaller. Shitty will be the new normal.
Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke. Then regulators will take things seriously.
You wouldn't operate in any startup having a public camera streaming your laptop screens, most intimate tactical conversations and strategy to the open internet - so why give that data to companies who's sole goal is to make money?
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
> a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. It'll just be power users. We're moving toward a world of significantly fewer analysts and more into "Super SMEs" that can actually learn tools like Claude and manage enormous complexity with them. Just giving average users these tools will produce garbage. This example from Claude is so contrived and any business analyst can see how a process tha…
I think you’re underestimating “average users”. If we talk about the median, then probably you’re right, but if we talk about “the group of people clustered around the average” I think there’s a lot of untapped potential, especially in people who assumed data and programming were unknowable/impossible and have therefore been held back by “good” tools like excel
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
excel isnt used because it's a database, it is because you can do things in it in relatively unstructured ways and reference things youve already done with a click. the future of databasing is bringing more spreadsheet UI to the database, not bringing more users away from spreadsheets. with AI i agree there could be some sort of UI that could pop off that leverages it well, but im not sure its going to be t bring users closer to coding. I think it is going to look more like a project management tool than anything else. i mean shit, it might even just be an excel add-on because excel is still where the data is
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
Think the movie Her 2013. OS1 it's called.
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
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> And then they dump it in your lap as being helpful I've been guilty of this and gotten pushback from my manager: "this feels like homework, cut these options down to 100 words each, max". Curation and refinement are even more important when you can have genAI generate reams of text. Seeking outside signals is even more important, like talking to customers, looking at real usage data, and more. It's too easy to trus…
It's all fun and games until some high level executive realizes everyone is using it and still demanding the same paycheck.
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It's all fun and games until some high level executive realizes everyone is using it and still demanding the same paycheck.
So what? They produce more for the same money. What's not to like?
The word "more" there is doing a lot of work.
What is the "more"? Is it:
- more documents and text or more understanding
- more code or more valuable features
- more things to throw against the wall or more considered experiments
It's way easier to do the first things instead of the second.
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The future is perpetually dealing with the fallout from all the vibe coding as the pool of people who'd have a shot at fixing it gets smaller and smaller. Shitty will be the new normal.
I feel like it will be like going back to the 80s, when PCs became a norm and most programmers and hobbyists could code without the need of a University or a Corporation. Thousands of shareware apps you had to navigate, everyone trying to solve the same problems from different angles.. I do agree quality will be missed, and shadow IT will be again a big issue like at the end of the 80s and early 90s.
Planes falling out of the sky, trains crashing into each other, pacemakers downloading updates and freezing
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I have seen people just generate large docs with Claude cowork and they themselves have not scrutinized it or know why/how it's useful. It's just kind of impressive in its volume and well formatedness. And then they dump it in your lap as being helpful
We've really reached the point where one person uses AI to create an impressive report based on a few prompts with some keywords, and the receiver uses another AI to summarize the report to a short TL;DR that's almost identical to the input prompts.