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Comment by cadamsdotcom

13 hours ago

This is really exciting.

Some of the folks who make things will go on to make things that suit not just their preferences but also those of a small audience.

Some of those audiences will go on to grow and grow and disrupt the big players.

The capital intensive part of software construction is melting away and being converted to opex (payg token costs and your time) and that will blast open the possibility space and lead to a massive new commons.

If the thing was so cheap to create why not open source it!

And if you like someone else’s open source thing but don’t want to take it wholesale why not give it to your agent and say “put the ideas from this onto my thing”!

It’s a new way of thinking about code too.

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deepfriedbits  13 hours ago

Absolutely and you're dead on thinking about the opening of the possibility space. The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. There will be many great apps coming and some lousy apps.

Another thing to watch for is how chatty the internet is about to become. A great many of these apps will hit APIs, ping each other, and so forth.

  • theshrike79  5 hours ago

    > The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software.

    Not just software. I'm predicting we'll be getting bespoke books and comics in a few years. TV and Movies after that.

    Basically there will be a service with mad-libs style book skeletons and you can get your exact specifics put in with LLM writing in them.

    You want a romance novel with dragons (D&D style), a red-headed princess protagonist that's a bad-ass fighter and she has three men competing for her affection, each with a very distinct look that YOU specifically like.

    Done.

    This already being done by actual human writers, many (not all!) people read books based on tropes they like, the rest doesn't really matter. They basically check the tags of the story and if they match well enough, they'll buy it and read it. And I mean very specific: https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarian... =)

  • gnabgib  13 hours ago

    Real nice to see two accounts using LLMs discuss nothing like this. They warned us this would happen, and here we are. I guess the topic is apt, but we used to customize windows (95+) and Linux like this (not down to vibe-coded insecure replacement of apps, but display/desktop/widgets/explorer/transparency of components).