Coding was already democratized. Anyone could already build their own tools and projects. Children were already learning to code in school and making things in Roblox. There were no gatekeepers other than time and effort.
Now no one will even bother to learn to code. They'll be tethered to these proprietary black boxes and services believing their ability to prompt Claude is some kind of liberation, even though they'll never understand or be able edit anything the AI creates for them, and they'll be limited by whatever the model can express, which will be determined by the companies that control the model. If you think that local models will be the answer - they won't be. If a model capable of competing with the big LLM services and creating professional level software/media/whatever at a whim existed, you wouldn't be allowed to own it. Certainly not for free and without condition.
That may be a useful thing for some people, but the widespread loss of knowledge, skill and freedom and the mass centralized control of all forms of intellectual expression in exchange for simply getting a MVP as fast as possible is going to be a net negative for humanity.
A different perspective:
It is amazing that now everyone that previously could not code now can build their own tools or projects they have ever wanted.
This democratization is a net good for people who want to build their own thing but just couldn't get started.
I don't see what the issue is here, you can make anything you've ever wanted faster than ever.
Understood if you're one of those "I love the journey" type of people who love it for the sake of building things and open source.
But some of us just want to get something out of our heads and built without months of back and forth with a developer.
Truly exciting times.
Do you think there's any point to learning to code by hand anymore as a means to financial freedom?
> But some of us just want to get something out of our heads and built without months of back and forth with a developer.
This website is called Hacker News, but at this point it should be renamed IdeaGuyNews. Hardly any hackers here anymore.
Coding was already democratized. Anyone could already build their own tools and projects. Children were already learning to code in school and making things in Roblox. There were no gatekeepers other than time and effort.
Now no one will even bother to learn to code. They'll be tethered to these proprietary black boxes and services believing their ability to prompt Claude is some kind of liberation, even though they'll never understand or be able edit anything the AI creates for them, and they'll be limited by whatever the model can express, which will be determined by the companies that control the model. If you think that local models will be the answer - they won't be. If a model capable of competing with the big LLM services and creating professional level software/media/whatever at a whim existed, you wouldn't be allowed to own it. Certainly not for free and without condition.
That may be a useful thing for some people, but the widespread loss of knowledge, skill and freedom and the mass centralized control of all forms of intellectual expression in exchange for simply getting a MVP as fast as possible is going to be a net negative for humanity.
erm, what is your disability?