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Re:I Am Tired of AI by andreasmetsala on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:02AM (#41678686)
> If all it does is allow us to churn more high level software, which let's be honest is demand inelastic due to mostly large margins on software products (i.e. they would of paid a person anyway due to ROI) it doesn't seem it will add much to society other than shifting profit in tech from Labor to Capital/owners.

If creating software becomes cheaper then that means I can transform all the ideas I’ve had into software cheaply. Currently I simply don’t have enough hours in the day, a couple hours per weekend is not enough to roll out a tech startup.

Imagine all the open source projects that don’t have enough people to work on them. With LLM code generation we could have a huge jump in the quality of our software.

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Re:I Am Tired of AI by throw987987123 on Saturday September 28, 2024 @04:53AM (#41678915)
With abundance comes diminishing relative value in the product. In the end that skill and product would be seen as worth less by the market. The value of doing those ideas would drop long term to the point where it still isn't worth doing most of them, at least not for profit.
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Re:I Am Tired of AI by andreasmetsala on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:41AM (#41694894)
Fair point. I think it would still be a net gain for society, at the very least open source would get a boost.
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