Comment by dtagames
2 days ago
Is it, though? Those new tools and techniques are the future of software development. Those of us who are trying to push those boundaries are writing all the time about our discoveries.
AI has already changed everything about how I write code, think about code, budget for code, debug and refactor code, etc. If you're doing that, too, I know the HN audience would welcome hearing from you.
My stuff is niche on my personal blog[0] (indie game dev), but I write about bigger AI topics on Medium[1]. All of this stuff has got to eventually filter down to individual use cases, but perhaps the philosophy of software is changing?
Is it too soon to call out some early victims? I don't think we need any more new languages or data formats. Ever. Text is going to be MD so there go proprietary text markup formats. Data is JSON, full stop. (Speaking for web apps here).
Also going away are endless tweaks to UI frameworks as customers (dev and non-dev) will be "drawing" and defining their own dynamic UIs through the prompts they write. On the backside, those prompts will turn into multiple tool calls to perhaps unexplored APIs via MCP -- a complete inversion of the client-server control model we're used to.
If there's a better place to write or read about this stuff, I'd love to hear about it, too!
[0] https://davidbethune.com/blog
[1] https://medium.com/@mimixco/list/ai-library-e2fcb2e18159
Thanks for the links. Your content on how LLMs are built is excellent.
> Those new tools and techniques are the future of software development.
If that's the case, you may have to count me out. I'm glad to use LLMs to automate the easy/boring parts out, but I'm not outsourcing my technical creativity -- that's a significant part of who I am as a human. If that means I'm out of a job, so be it. My body is slowing down in middle age, but if I had to choose, I'd rather finish my working years breaking my back in the trades serving people in ways that are meaningful to both me and my customers.