Comment by ofrzeta
1 month ago
"I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.” (Simon Willison herein quotes Matthew Yglesias) - this is such a naive and sloppy take. What do you want? "better software"? not going to happen. "cheaper software"? not going to happen either. "more software"? for sure, but is it really what you want?
If I hire a plumber it's certainly not cheaper than doing it myself but when I am paying money I want to make sure it is better quality than what I am vibe plumbing myself.
I definitely want more, higher quality software, maybe even 10X more. Even simple things like a personal assistant that can help manage my social life better don't really exist yet, nevermind that I want a medical team doing research on my behalf/ optimizing my insurance. Or a software team in the background building bespoke software for all my hobbies etc.
I'm already getting and creating better software for cheaper. I have lots of software products that I use that are better now than a few years ago because of AI. And much of the software I use is free. What are you talking about exactly?
And on the creation side, I run a SaaS that's taking over a niche market because it replaces a human-powered process with an AI-powered one. Customers switch to me because they get better results more consistently, much faster, and much cheaper.