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by georgemcbay 39 days ago
> The number of people now involved in software development has now increased because of a lower barrier to entry.

I don't see what this has to do with what I posted.

Yes, AI lowers the floor on software development, and there are positive aspects of that, but that doesn't change the possibility of an innovation stall.
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bwhiting2356 39 days ago
re: concerns at a societal level. More people are making software than before. People who have been coding for a long time have moved up an abstraction layer and are further from the code. But many people are actually closer to the code than before.
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georgemcbay 39 days ago
> But many people are actually closer to the code than before.

More people are coding, I wouldn't say they are closer to the code if they are vibe coding. Are any of them going to produce the next breakthrough in computer language/framework/method of development/etc?

The risk of AI is that we dull the skills of enough people at the high end of the state of the art of the nuts and bolts of software development that we slow down innovation on that end. That's the concern.

Previously-non-programmers vibe coding CRUD apps they never could have before is all well and good but really has nothing to do with this concern. They may create wonderful and successful businesses but they are irrelevant to computer science related innovation.

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eecc1 39 days ago
Congrats you’re the only poster in this whole thread who gets it.

The standard response is ‘Dw AI will recursively improve and that’ll take care of all the emerging issues”.

Lmao ok bro

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