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For a hundred years software was inscrutable enough to normies that you could be an artisan. But most professions haven't had that luxury for a long, long time. Try making and selling pretty much anything else you built by hand.

Now it's software people's turn to feel the pain of being a starving artist and watch as your attractive friends with no skills and a social media presence "make it" with their genius.

We haven't even begun to feel the weight of it yet.

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There are cabinet makers who still make pieces by hand with hand tools. They charge whatever they want and do well. Not everything is Ikea.

And yet nearly all cabinets are not made by hand...

Kudos to the lucky few artisans that the modern economy will support, but becoming a stocker at Ikea will probably be more lucrative than picking up a saw and plane.

That will depend on your life goals.

The demand sets the market. There simply isn't enough demand at that price.

Even though the concept of doing what you love has only really existed for a few decades, a lot of people take it for granted. That's just how fast humans get used to things, and AI is no different. It takes a decade or two for a new generation to grow up with the new normal, and then it's just waiting a few generations for the old farts to die off.

Must be nice for all six of them.

What doomerism. I really don't see it.

Slop has always been cheap. Now it's even cheaper. But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.

Furthermore, software runs the world. Never before have we had such a chance to break the chains.

No it isn’t. If you don’t care about stuff like security or user friendliness you can do most of what you want through simple shell scripts probably.

>But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.

Skilled craftsmen said the same thing, and yet everyone seems to prefer $1 Temu slop that breaks in a year.

I remember the same at the advent of desktop publishing

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