Comment by ivape
6 days ago
Soon as the world realized they don't need a website and can just have FB/Twitter page, a huge percentage of freelance web development gigs just vanished. We have to get real about what's about to happen. The app economy filled the gap, and the only optimistic case is the AI app industry is what's going to fill the gap going forward. I just don't know about that. There's a certain end-game vibes I'm getting because we're talking about self-building and self-healing software. More so, a person can ask the AI to role play anything, even an app.
Sure. And before the invention of the spreadsheet, the world's most important programming language, individual spreadsheets were something a programmer had to build for a business.
Except that FB/Twitter are rotting platforms. I don't pretend that freelance web dev is a premium gig, but setting up Wordpress sites for local flower shops etc. shouldn't require a higher level of education/sophistication than e.g. making physical signs for the same shops.
Technical? Yes. Hardcore expert premium technical, no. The people who want the service can pay someone with basic to moderate skills a few hundred bucks to spend a day working on it, and that's all good.
Could I get an LLM to do much of the work? Yes, but I could also do much of the work without an LLM. Someone who doesn't understand the first principles of domains, Wordpress, hosting and so on, not so much.
Except that FB/Twitter are rotting platforms.
They were not rotting platforms when they evaporated jobs at that particular moment, about 10-15 years ago. There's no universe where people are making money making websites. One could easily collect multi thousand dollars per month just making websites awhile ago before twitter/fb pages just on the side. There is a long history to web development.
Also, the day of the website has been over for quite awhile so I don't even buy the claim that social media is a rotting platform.
None of the LLM models are self-building, self-healing or even self-thinking or self-teaching. They are static models (+rag, but that's a bolt-on). Did you have a specific tech in mind?
> We have to get real about what's about to happen.
Or maybe shouldn't enthusiastically repeat the destruction of the open web in favor of billionaire-controlled platforms for surveillance and manipulation.
Start getting to be friends with some billionaire (or... shh... trillionaire) families, Elysium is coming!