I think that’s where software engineering is not quite getting what’s happening right now. People keep asking where are the apps?where all this great code? And the answer is becoming that people aren’t building apps to sell to other people. They’re building the apps that they themselves want to use. I’ve made dozens of apps that I have no interest in distributing or using outside of friends and family. The AI coding revolution is already here and it’s not in production software so much as it is in bespoke small group applications.
Only technically-minded people will do that. Most people won’t (almost no one in my extended family I can think of would), but those still need software.
The only way this will go pervasively mainstream is if AI gets so good that it can autonomously recognize what tools a user would find useful, and would create it for them without specific prompting. That will pretty much be AGI.
