Reflections on the End of Software

I’ve picked up an old discarded dining table and bought some varnish and sand paper and for a few bucks was able to turn it into a table that would have cost me hundreds to buy brand new - the furniture makers are now history!

I can’t wait to see what car mechanics could do with discarded cars and some wrenches - the possibilities are endless.

> My process was to iteratively prompt Claude Code until I had something that worked the way I want.

This is the way of toys, whereas professional software developement addresses the needs of users.

> This is a much better tool than I could have built without AI

The key word here is I. The lower one's abilities, the higher the gain from a so-called "AI".