alt Hacker NewsIf software has become a mass-produced commodity then seems to me the software business will become a much more finance focused business
You will really have to weigh the cost of making the software against the expected revenue.
If software has become a mass-produced commodity then seems to me the software business will become a much more finance focused business
You will really have to weigh the cost of making the software against the expected revenue.
Since software is still a winner-takes-all market, the mass-production property of software doesn't really matter.
In such markets, what you produce is either worth nothing or worth millions of dollars. For as long as it's the case that well-constructed code (with or without LLM help) is more likely to be in the latter category, the economics of software don't really change.
Even before LLMs, you could've commissioned a half-assed clone of any app you wanted from a 3rd world consultancy for a few thousand dollars. LLMs are basically Bangalore-as-API.