Comment by prmoustache

> software creators are more likely to make money if they ship something that is 80% perfect now than if they ship something that is 99% perfect 6 months from now.

Except they are shooting themselves in the foot. I reminds me of the goldrush where the shovel and trousers sellers (here the AI companies) would make more money than the miners (developers).

Soon there will be barely any software to build if the general public can just ask an AI to do the things they want. 10 years ago, people would ask a friend that knew about photoshop to help them edit a picture or create something. Nowadays most of them just ask an AI. Same will happen to any kind of productivity or artistic tool. The people alergic to AI slop will just go full luddite and analog and won't use a computer for anything artistry so software creators will lose them alltogether. Home and professionnal software might gradually just disappear and most software creators will have spent thoundands of dollars in tokens with nothing to sell anymore. What might survive might only be the tools that AI rely one, operating systems, database and storage systems, etc.

But boy you will have been super productive, yet totally cancelled by the increase in competition, for the few years it lasted.