Depends on how you see it.

I know many people building oss, local alternatives to enterprise software for specific industries that cost thousands of dollars all thanks to AI.

If everyone can produce software now and at a much complex and bigger scale, it's much easier to create decentralized and free alternatives to long-standing closed projects.

Now one could even envision a near future where they have agents running 24/7 automatically scanning for new SaaS projects and cloning them, and just throwing slop into the market to see if it sticks.

Really goes to show how much I depend on the algorithmic recommendations, I have no idea what to watch having to search manually. Usually my feed always has something that piques my interest.

edit: back up

That's just an American thing, I've never owned a car and most people of my age I know haven't either.

I've heard Accelerando by Stross is good too.

That being said at least the $20/mo Claude Code subscription is really worth it, and many companies are paying for the AI tools anyways.

edit: okay fair enough I might be biased on who I follow/read on who 'most' people are

I really don't want games to turn into a soulless, AI generated mush. This could also bring a huge amount of slop-generated content flooding the game market.

On the other hand I think this could be very cool from some specific use cases like outdoor scenarios in simulators. I've always wanted a game like Euro Truck Simulator where I can drive a car around a whole 1:1 representation of a country and this might just allow that, obviously I don't care about an accurate representation of every building or tree or hallucinations, just for it to be believable enough.

I wonder if it can be integrated into already existing engines though, because it seems like a big stretch to write actual game logic as an LLM prompt.

Which is curious since prototyping helps a lot in gamedev.

Well for once, tech companies are still at large hiring via leetcode/livecoding interviews. I feel much less prepared now that I was a year ago.

I read a (rather pessimistic) comment here yesterday claiming that the current generation of languages is most likely going to be the last, since the already existing corpus of code for training is going to trump any other possible feature the new language might introduce, and most of the code will be LLM generated anyways.