Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software Still the Same? [video]

Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by kylehotchkiss on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:22PM (#50486650)

Imagination crisis. The people who understand how to architect software are spending their free time on social media saying "%%% IS INSANE" or something about "I one-shotted this %existing thing%".

The people who said building software wasn't the hard part before were right, you still need interesting problems to solve to find interesting things to build. Gotta get out of the tech bubble to find those. There aren't many interesting problems left to solve for other tech bros

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by pton_xd on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:30PM (#50486751)

Yeah, all of this power at our fingertips and all I see is "look I ported this 20 year old game to WebGL, and added Mario!" and other such unimaginative projects. There's very few actually novel / interesting things being built right now, as far as I can tell. And for once I think you can blame our collective imagination rather than the (lack of) capability.

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by dennisy on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:16PM (#50487490)

I would also argue we are becoming less creative, due to our over-consumption of AI generated content. So many startups look the same nowadays.

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