The basic assumption is, that we already see that an LLM can do basic level of software engineering.
This wasn't even an option for a lot of people before this.
For example, even for non software engineering tasks, i'm at an advantage. "Ah you have to analyse these 50 excel files from someone else? I can write something for it"
I myself sometimes start creating a new small tool i wouldn't have tried before but now instead of using some open source project, i can vibe spec it and get something out.
The interesting thing is, that if i have the base of my specs, i might regenerate it later on again with a better code model.
And we still don't know what will happen when compute gets expanded and expanded. Next year a few more DCs will get online and this will continue for now.
Also tools like google firebase will get 1000x more useful with vibe coding. They provide basic auth and stuff like this. So you can actually focus on writing your code.
God, please no more firebase and mongo. AI coding is really really good at sql/relational data and there are services like supabase and neon that make it dead simple.
Around the world, every country should be allowed to make 'money' for specific cases like for teacher salaries, ... so that most people are able to work for the state or for our community.
Everyone works less, everyone works better, we will then see how much humans we still need.
Uncontrolled capitalism hasn't worked either. Controlled capitalism brought us were we are today: Huge inequality around the globe especially in 3th world countries like the USA and destruction of the whole ecosystem we live in.
Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.
My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.
If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.
Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.
> If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.
That sounds nice, but who is going to decide exactly which behaviors to reward and by how much?
To avoid grift and corruption, we should probably have everyone vote on it in some kind of democratic process, right? Well that's basically what we have today with municipal elections, and looks like the consensus is we actually don't want to pay teachers all that much.
>Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy
Which people were happy? Nobody hates communism more than Eastern Europeans. I don't know a single elderly (i.e. lived through communism) person in my country who doesn't hate communism. I think you have a rose tinted view of how communism worked out on Europe.
I really don't understand this comment? Its quite commonly known that this is the same/related?
Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.
Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.
I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?
I'm lost on why you fantasies this so much and don't just buy an RV or something?
Do you really hate driving that much?
I don't think this would change the world as you imagine it. I don't mind driving long i will just make sure i get entertainment for the purpose. Like an audio book. My wife doesn't say 'Lets go soemwere you can drive me around and i can finally do that many things in parallel'.
And plenty of family drive today with RVs while the parents are in the front and the kids are in the back. No one is showering while the parents drive. Do you know how slow Cars now would need to drive to make this suddenly that much more comftable than what we have today?
You would need to rebuild the car and streets to get to this point.
I have learned a little bit of photoshop and 10 years ago maya too.
But i'm a software engineere by trade and I do not struggle with telling you that this thing has to move left for reason xy, i would struggle with random tools capable of doing that particular thing for me.
And it does not matter here how i did it if the result is the same result.
In Software Engineering this is just not always the case. Because often enough you would need to verify that what you get is the thing you expect (did the report actually take the right numbers) or Security. Security is the biggest risk to all ai coding out there. Security is already so hard because people don't see it, they ignore it because they don't know.
You have so many non functional requirements in software which just don't exist in art. If i need that image, thats it. Most complex thing here? Perhaps color calibration and color profiles. Resolution.
If we talk about 3D it gets again a little bit more complicated because now we talk the right 3d model, right way to rig, etc.
Also if someone says "i need a picture for x" and is happy about it, the risk is less customers. But if someone needs a new feature and tomorrow all your customer data are exposed or the companies product stops working because of a basic bug, the company might be gone a week later.
This wasn't even an option for a lot of people before this.
For example, even for non software engineering tasks, i'm at an advantage. "Ah you have to analyse these 50 excel files from someone else? I can write something for it"
I myself sometimes start creating a new small tool i wouldn't have tried before but now instead of using some open source project, i can vibe spec it and get something out.
The interesting thing is, that if i have the base of my specs, i might regenerate it later on again with a better code model.
And we still don't know what will happen when compute gets expanded and expanded. Next year a few more DCs will get online and this will continue for now.
Also tools like google firebase will get 1000x more useful with vibe coding. They provide basic auth and stuff like this. So you can actually focus on writing your code.