[avaer]

For a hundred years software was inscrutable enough to normies that you could be an artisan. But most professions haven't had that luxury for a long, long time. Try making and selling pretty much anything else you built by hand.

Now it's software people's turn to feel the pain of being a starving artist and watch as your attractive friends with no skills and a social media presence "make it" with their genius.

We haven't even begun to feel the weight of it yet.

[agentultra]

There are cabinet makers who still make pieces by hand with hand tools. They charge whatever they want and do well. Not everything is Ikea.

[stiglitz]

Kudos to the lucky few artisans that the modern economy will support, but becoming a stocker at Ikea will probably be more lucrative than picking up a saw and plane.

[Ferret7446]

The demand sets the market. There simply isn't enough demand at that price.

Even though the concept of doing what you love has only really existed for a few decades, a lot of people take it for granted. That's just how fast humans get used to things, and AI is no different. It takes a decade or two for a new generation to grow up with the new normal, and then it's just waiting a few generations for the old farts to die off.

[agentultra]

That will depend on your life goals.

[dd8601fn]

Must be nice for all six of them.

[spicyusername]

And yet nearly all cabinets are not made by hand...

[atomicnumber3]

What doomerism. I really don't see it.

Slop has always been cheap. Now it's even cheaper. But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.

[nullstyle]

Furthermore, software runs the world. Never before have we had such a chance to break the chains.

[krackers]

>But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.

Skilled craftsmen said the same thing, and yet everyone seems to prefer $1 Temu slop that breaks in a year.

[deadbabe]

No it isn’t. If you don’t care about stuff like security or user friendliness you can do most of what you want through simple shell scripts probably.

[gumby]

I remember the same at the advent of desktop publishing