[ako]

Being able to do it quicker and cheaper will often ensure more people will learn the basics. Electrical tools open up woodworking to more people, same with digital photography, more people take the effort to learn the basics. There will also be many more people making rubbish, but is that really a problem?

With ai it’s cheap and fast for a professional to ask the AI: what does this rubbish software do, and can you create me a more robust version following these guidelines.

[majormajor]

> With ai it’s cheap and fast for a professional to ask the AI: what does this rubbish software do, and can you create me a more robust version following these guidelines.

This falls apart today with sufficiently complex software and also seems to require source availability (or perfect specifications).

One of the things I keep an eye out for in terms of "have LLMs actually cracked large-product complexity yet" (vs human-overseen patches or greenfield demos) is exactly that sort of re-implementation-and-improvement you talk about. Like a greenfield Photoshop substitute.