The Calm Before the Storm

Geoff Teehan on the particular moment we’re in with AI assisted software creation:

When digital cameras showed up, people used them like film cameras. Same pictures, they just stopped paying to develop them. Nobody was photographing their parking spot yet. That’s about where software is. Faster development is the same pictures without the developing costs. The parking-spot phase hasn’t started.

Are we really prepared for a world where software creation requires the same amount of forethought as taking “fourteen nearly identical photographs of your lunch”? We’re soon to find out!