I’m very bullish. My dad and I were talking about this the other day, but there are still so many quality-of-life improvements that are bottlenecked by not having enough developers or enough time.
For example, deploying hardware to all subways to track their status and location with higher accuracy. I want a truly smart meal planner that can look in my fridge and my eating habits and tell me what I need to eat. I want a little plugin for Obsidian that will let me sync tasks with Linear.
There are tons of tiny little pieces of technology that would be useful but their economic value is low or unclear; if developers become more efficient at not only writing code but testing, deploying, getting feedback, these become possible. Or, the LLMs can’t become great at all of those things, and developers keep their jobs (and high pay). You can’t have it both ways.
For example, deploying hardware to all subways to track their status and location with higher accuracy. I want a truly smart meal planner that can look in my fridge and my eating habits and tell me what I need to eat. I want a little plugin for Obsidian that will let me sync tasks with Linear.
There are tons of tiny little pieces of technology that would be useful but their economic value is low or unclear; if developers become more efficient at not only writing code but testing, deploying, getting feedback, these become possible. Or, the LLMs can’t become great at all of those things, and developers keep their jobs (and high pay). You can’t have it both ways.