@GergelyOrosz: Saying software is dead because everyone can create it with agents is like saying movies are dead because billions of p…
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Gergely Orosz shares an analogy (originally from Simon Willison) arguing that AI coding agents won't kill software development, comparing the situation to smartphones boosting rather than killing photography and filmmaking.
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Saying software is dead because everyone can create it with agents is like saying movies are dead because billions of ppl have a high res video camera in their pockets
Movies doing better than ever+more ppl make a living from videos, movies, TV than ever
(Analogy from @simonw)
nader dabit (@dabit3): Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it’s the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
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