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by rablackburn
46 days ago
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> In theory this should be nirvana. No more vibe coding! Everyone is a power user. Zero dependencies. But there will be much weeping. If I had to sum up the zeitgeist of the '90s techno-optimism it would be this persistent, confident prediction that once people just learned _how_ to use computers, and everyone is a power user everything will be fine! Despite the mounting evidence that actually, no, like everything else in reality the distribution of skill is a bell-curve with the median sitting uncomfortably low for those who, to quote OP, "lived on IRC or in the bash terminal". Free universal education didn't fix this problem, LLMs won't fix this problem. Man's natural paucity is no longer in the availability or accessibility of knowledge. The liberal ideal that all we must do is empower the individual turns out to not have been the solution to everything forever. But hey, being self-aware enough to make productive use of this new technology is probably _some_ kind of edge. May as many as possible survive. |
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Yep: It's a cheap tiny factory you control that's big enough for your unique priorities! Every person would own the means of production!
I don't think the assumption was that everyone would write software, but that they'd at least they'd choose in a way that favored future independence of choice. It's depressing to see the arc from "tool that grants autonomy" to "tool for delivery of product from megacorp."