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The end of software | Evan Conrad

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It seems reasonable that, in under 5 years (85% confidence), one will be able to write a reasonable description in english and generate the entire codebase from AI. Give a PR title & description, and out comes the PR. Maybe the PR itself is reviewed by AI or maybe it just runs because it's so often correct. This might mean the end of software in the way we think of it today. The "iPhone" of the future will not have an App Store.1 If there are "apps", they'll be generated on the fly, change based on your behavior, and be beautifully designed to match your exact tastes. iPhone is a cash cow so it seems hard to imagine Apple actually releasing this. But whoever2 does has a remarkable advantage over Apple: every single app any consumer could ever want exists on AIphone. No need to get Meta to create a WhatsApp for AIPhone; it makes one on the fly. Every app is free or of enormously low cost. There's no ads and every app works perfectly on your model. Every app works great with every other

It seems reasonable that, in under 5 years (85% confidence), one will be able to write a reasonable description in english and generate the entire codebase from AI. Give a PR title & description, and out comes the PR. Maybe the PR itself is reviewed by AI or maybe it just runs because it's so often correct. This might mean the end of software in the way we think of it today. The "iPhone" of the future will not have an App Store. 1 If there are "apps", they'll be generated on the fly, change based on your behavior, and be beautifully designed to match your exact tastes. iPhone is a cash co

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