[maybe_pablo]

That’s fair. I do think, however, that the software industry may become a bit like the clothing industry: there will still be an artisanal market for people who want human-made software, but to be honest I wouldn’t expect it to remain the mainstream option.

[voidUpdate]

Well I can say for sure I'd rather wear long lasting, tested (second hand), human made clothing rather than Shein Slop

[maybe_pablo]

Sure, and I don’t disagree, but goods and services still need to scale to billions of people. Most people aren’t going to start knitting their own clothes, or have the time to, just like most companies probably won’t rely on fully hand-written software if cheaper automated alternatives are good enough. What you want or enjoy is one thing; the reality of society is another.

[qsera]

>won’t rely on fully hand-written software if cheaper automated alternatives are good enough.

By this logic, all non-outsourced development should be dead already.