LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry
scholarly, creative, economic, etc—are going to fall away, as people are freed to do things only limited by their imagination, or, more practically, by the old costs of producing software” https://twitter.com/... @om : @theoasisAI @Spotify All the hype around AI and ChatGPT needs some context. Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin in their essay “Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment” weave a compelling link between software, economics, and how humans value software. https://skventures.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : And here is the essay again. https://skventures.substack.com/ ... And a related followup. https://skventures.substack.com/ ... Steve O'Grady / @sogrady : in addition to yegge, btw, you should be reading @defrag and @pkedrosky's, ah, less optimistic take on these technologies https://skventures.substack.com/ ... Chris Anderson / @chr1sa : Both agree that call centers and research analysts will disrupted by AI, and that teachers and psychiatrists are probably safe. Lee also attempts to identify which professions will be hugely enhanced by AI. Anyway, the SK essay is very interesting https://skventures.substack.com/ ... Brink Lindsey / @lindsey_brink : Among the most interesting pieces on the implications of large language models I've read yet: the coming collapse in the cost of producing software. https://skventures.substack.com/ ... Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Good comments, both direct and parallel, to our recent note on the coming LLM-induced changes in software (https://skventures.substack.com/ ...) https://twitter.com/... @policytensor : This is the first smart thing I've read on AI. Bullish, but in a serious way. https://skventures.substack.com/ ...