Comment by podgietaru
1 day ago
I have a feeling this is going to end up in the same place where a lot of AI generated projects end up.
There has for sure been a reduction in the amount of effort to create software. But that friction that existed before helped in determining what was WORTH making. There will be a subsection of tools that are now creatable, that are needed. But there'll be a lot of tools that get created that will be abandoned precisely because they didn't solve enough of a problem.
Having a gating mechanism, in the past the friction and effort, was good.
I'm still searching if somebody else made something for tiny tooling before I start throwing something together. Getting something just working is easy nowadays, and makes things that we considered not worth the effort before viable, but making sure it actually is good, doesn't have unintended side effects, and has good documentation (which I'm still typically writing by hand) adds quite a bit of extra effort on top, which still makes sharing the better option than just doing everything yourself for a lot of things.