Comment by saulpw
8 hours ago
I don't see how you could verify "same application in every meaningful way" inside of 30 minutes. Even if the other fellow just vibed it up like you did, him caring about the product and doing thoughtful QA and actually using the application and making little tweaks and staking his reputation on it and committing to its ongoing maintenance is what matters. You may even have an identical application at the end of the day but I'll pay $20 for one that I'm better able to trust.
> I don't see how you could verify "same application in every meaningful way" inside of 30 minutes.
That was not difficult. Though obviously I wouldn’t declare it so and actually ship it to paying people in 30 minutes.
As for the rest of your point, that’s certainly going to be a fair assessment, much of the time, for now.
But that wasn’t really the point. We’re already pretty close to being there on “just tell the machine what you want” for huge swaths of non-critical software. And I don’t think pressure from that is going to let up.