Comment by breppp

> One obvious answer is we can make a lot more custom stuff. Like, why buy Windows and Office when I can just ask claude to write me my own versions instead? Why run a commodity operating system on kiosks? We can make so many more one-off pieces of software

yes, it will enable a lot of custom one-off software but I think people are forgetting the advantages of multiple copied instances, which is what enabled software to be so successful in the first place.

Mass production of the same piece of software creates standards, every word processor uses the same format and displays it the same way.

Every date library you import will calculate two months from now the same way, therefore this is code you don't have to constantly double check in your debug sessions.