Nah, if that were true there would be a lot more new software available. What's it working at is making developers feel busy, which is itself a worthwhile task.
There may be some other limiting factors on the rate of generation of new useful software. E.g. money to market it, humans to specify it, perhaps there's enough software already...
I am, though it always takes me longer than just writing it myself because I have to fix so much (which may be a function of the kind of software I write). But more importantly the development team I support as an admin absolutely loves their agents or whatever they're being called this week and yet isn't giving me stuff that I can move into operations any faster than they were a year ago.
What industry, and what kind of software? Your assessment was generally spot on a year ago, but things have changed dramatically in the last quarter, so I'm curious how fresh this assessment is.
AI is definitely creating working software.
It's also leading people to submit hallucinations as security vulns in open source. I've had to deal with some of them.
Define "working". It's creating software that does what someone wanted some of the time, sure.
Look around you. Our industry has cultivated that this kind of software is everywhere.
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Nah, if that were true there would be a lot more new software available. What's it working at is making developers feel busy, which is itself a worthwhile task.
Maybe it's available but you don't realize it.
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There may be some other limiting factors on the rate of generation of new useful software. E.g. money to market it, humans to specify it, perhaps there's enough software already...
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Are you unable to create working software with frontier models?
I am, though it always takes me longer than just writing it myself because I have to fix so much (which may be a function of the kind of software I write). But more importantly the development team I support as an admin absolutely loves their agents or whatever they're being called this week and yet isn't giving me stuff that I can move into operations any faster than they were a year ago.
What industry, and what kind of software? Your assessment was generally spot on a year ago, but things have changed dramatically in the last quarter, so I'm curious how fresh this assessment is.
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