Software 3.0 - Div’s Substack

When Software becomes AI

There’s a lot of discussion about where software is heading and what the future will look like with all the buzz generated by large AI models like GPT. With simple text prompting to an AI model, it’s now possible to generate human-indistinguishable text, surrealistic images, functional code, inspirational music, and more. This is all Software 3.0. Software 3.0 represents a fundamental shift in software engineering and development, where the new programming language is simply “English”. In this post, I provide insights using an analogy to semiconductor chips & early computing (note that…

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