Comment by csallen
5 hours ago
The average piece written and published today today is much shorter than the average piece from the past. Look at Twitter. Social media in general. Internet forums. Blog posts. Emails. Chats. Etc. The amount of this content DWARFS other content.
The same is true of most things that get democratized. Look at video. TikTok, YouTube, YouTube shorts.
Look at all the apps people are building are building for themselves with AI. They are typically not building Microsoft Word.
Of course there will be some apps that are bigger and more ambitious than ever. I myself am currently building an app that's bigger an more ambitious than I would have tried to build without AI. I'm well aware of this use case.
But as many have pointed out, AI is worse at these than at smaller apps. And pretending that these are the only apps that matter is what's leading developers imo to over-value the importance of code quality. What's happening right now that's invisible to most professional engineers is an explosion in the number of time, bespoke personal applications being quickly built by non-developers are that are going to chip away at people's reasons to buy and use large, bloated, professional software with hundreds of thousands of users.
> Look at all the apps people are building are building for themselves with AI.
The apps those people were making before LLMs became ubiquitous were no apps. So by definition they are now larger and more ambitious.