What are you gonna make? Yet another CRUD app? An API subscription? A game? A mobile app?
We’ve created software for virtually every place we can put software. There’s nothing new.
It’s like bridges. We’ve seen all the ways bridges can be built by now. There’s nothing new left to discover.
> There’s nothing new left to discover.
It's the end of history. What could we possibly discover about a series of technologies that are already nearly 100 years old now?
I've heard people say that various things are "solved" now because of LLMs too -- programming included. This implies we've "solved" thinking. I'm worried about these sentiments.
When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he could not have predicted the teleprompter. Now that code is easy to generate, it’s plausible that we will use much, much more of it than before.
It’s also a bit ironic to imagine that we’re at the end of new software ideas on a site owned(?) by YC.
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Mature tech evolves more slowly. Think about cars, there's nothing new about them any more. But wait, what about electic cars? Aren't they a new thing? And driverless cars. And soon flying taxis. Automobiles are an old invention but they are still evolving.
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Why did we even need bridges in the first place
Well, a short time ago somebody made the first LLM. Was that the end of it?