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We're in a very interesting transition phase between software development with a 'prod' and personal software. I had an interesting chat with Illia Polosukhin during the Buidl Europe speakers' dinner last year. His take is that most software will be ephemeral and IMO that is directionally correct

I personally believed then (and still now) that society needs at least one middle step where humans still have a hand on the wheel and an interface to interact with. A year ago people still had strong doubts about whether or not LLMs could produce 'production ready' code.

I predicted we would have self-sovereign interfaces at Buidl Europe and we are CLOSE. bsky.app/profile/dist... bsky.app/profile/dist... bsky.app/profile/dana... bsky.app/profile/dist...

So what happens when people can build their own software AND define their interface? What I said then and said now remains. The value then shifts from the developed experience to high quality data feeds. Right now people are hand-wringing about LLM-generated 'production' code. It's too late.

For the moment we still need to deal with concepts like CI/CD, issues, and trying to coordinate human effort with linters, style guides, and code reviews. If a year ago nobody was taking LLM output seriously, where do you think we'll be 1 year from now?

You can still have hand-crafted artisanal software, and it will be VERY valuable, but it won't be the majority of software made and the concept of a small group of people dictating the user experience of a mass of people is under question today. What we will also have is personal software, 1 of 1.