[ciconia]

Hmm, I'm not sure I see the value in "disposable software". In any commercial service people are looking for software solutions that are durable, dependable, extensible, maintainable. This is the exact opposite of disposable software.

The whole premise of AI bringing democratization to software development and letting any layperson produce software signals a gross misunderstanding of how software development works and the requirements it should fulfill.

[cryptica]

Yes, software needs to be secure. If we accept the premise that software is going to be churned out in bulk, then the mechanisms for securing software must evolve rapidly... I don't see a world where there is custom software for everything but all insecure in different ways.

[swiftcoder]

Not only secure. It needs to be reliable (don't corrupt my data). It needs to be durable (I need to be able to access my data 10 years from now). etc.

[cryptica]

Yes, agreed. producing reliable software is one of these things which sounds trivial but is actually extremely difficult.

With my last side project, I became frustrated with my non-technical founder because he would have a lot of vague ideas and in his mind, he was sure that he had a crystal clear vision of what he wanted... But it was like, every idea he had, I was finding massive logical holes in them and finding contradictions... Like he wanted a feature and some other feature but it was physically impossible to have both without making the UX terrible.

And it wasn't just one time, it was constantly.

He would get upset at me for pointing out the many hurdles ahead of time... When in fact he should have been thanking me for saving us from ramming our heads into one wall after another.

[speeder]

This only means you didn't interacted enough with IOT or junky viral games market...

[alexjurkiewicz]

I play several sports across several teams and leagues. Each league has their own system for delivering fixtures. Each team has its own system of communication.

What I want is software that can glue these things together. Each week, announce the fixture and poll the team to see who will play.

So far, the complete fragmentation of all these markets (fixtures, chat) has made software solutions uneconomic. Any solution's sales market is necessarily limited to a small handful of teams, and will quickly become outdated as fixtures move and teams evolve.

I'm hopeful AI will let software solve problems like this, where disposable code is exactly what's needed.

[gnz11]

That sounds more like a bureaucratic problem (access to data) than a software problem.