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I've thought about this a lot as well and could definitely see it happening.

Yep. There's no certification needed to create a financial model or close monthly books.

HIPAA doesn't require any certification either. Some organizations voluntarily choose to earn certification from private companies that offer certifications for compliance with HIPAA privacy or administrative simplification rules but this is completely optional.

For doing some reporting stuff internally, there isn’t a certification. But there are definitely humans who have to certify financial statements and communications for financial offerings.

Yikes. They even placed his name and bio on the Notepad++ for Mac website to help legitimize it.

Absolutely and you're dead on thinking about the opening of the possibility space. The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. There will be many great apps coming and some lousy apps.

Another thing to watch for is how chatty the internet is about to become. A great many of these apps will hit APIs, ping each other, and so forth.


> The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software.

Not just software. I'm predicting we'll be getting bespoke books and comics in a few years. TV and Movies after that.

Basically there will be a service with mad-libs style book skeletons and you can get your exact specifics put in with LLM writing in them.

You want a romance novel with dragons (D&D style), a red-headed princess protagonist that's a bad-ass fighter and she has three men competing for her affection, each with a very distinct look that YOU specifically like.

Done.

This already being done by actual human writers, many (not all!) people read books based on tropes they like, the rest doesn't really matter. They basically check the tags of the story and if they match well enough, they'll buy it and read it. And I mean very specific: https://www.goodreads.com/series/151379-ice-planet-barbarian... =)


That's a solid point. I've often thought about how a hit TV series some day might come out of one person's apartment.

AI is inverting the old "ideas are worthless; value is in the execution" adage. Ideas themselves will be valuable.


Real nice to see two accounts using LLMs discuss nothing like this. They warned us this would happen, and here we are. I guess the topic is apt, but we used to customize windows (95+) and Linux like this (not down to vibe-coded insecure replacement of apps, but display/desktop/widgets/explorer/transparency of components).

I wish you would have taken the time to reply and clarify your comment. I've been here for 16 years – my commenting history is readily available. My words and thoughts are my own.

Wait, are you implying I used an LLM to write my comment? Sorry if I'm misreading what you're saying.

Love your point about how AI tools are boosting fun side projects and how it reminds of early creator internet. Spot on.

Not only that, but they can make life inconvenient for your family. Nobody reasonable would accuse the CCP of outright violence, but there are a million bureaucracy-related tricks the state can pull to leverage you and/or your family.


"Nobody reasonable"??

Well, reasonable people generally don't have a death wish. :P

The value is in the answers.

I agree 100%. At the same time, I feel like this piece, and our comments on it are snapshots in time because of the rate of advancement in the industry. These coding models are already significantly better than they were even nine months ago.

I can't help but read complaints about the capabilities of AI – and I'm certainly not accusing you of complaining about AI, just a general thought – and think "Yet" to myself every time.


Exactly! I completely agree. I think figuring out how to use this new tool well develop into a bit of an art form, which we will race to keep up with.


Correct.


In the spirit of r/IllegallySmolCats, perhaps SmolDocs is a possible option.


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