This is from a C-suite person at a company you’ve heard of. They’re responsible for product.
And THIS is why I have spent the last year developing proficiency in using LLMs as part of my development workflow:
It’s great to be able to detect a crock of shit.
There’s no universe where AI makes features “functionally free.”
The complexity of a software product cannot be handwaved away through magic tensor beans. Features are more than just code. Features are a social contract with the user.
Have you noticed how all the software is dogshit lately?
How all the software is shoving more and more junk at you that you never asked for?
How it’s nagging you with endless upsell overlays labeled “dismiss” in one obscure corner?
We’ve lost sight of the collaborative process between human and machine that software is meant to facilitate. Every user is just an orifice to shove additional functionality into, fattening the customer foie gras style into something more profitable
AI cannot “make features functionally free”
Because software success is bounded by HUMAN cognition. Humans need to actually apply this stuff to achieve human outcomes. Infinite feature bloat is not how you build software that achieves human outcomes.
And last I checked, the AI doesn’t have a bank account.
And that’s before we even get into how challenging it is to manage complexity at the code level.
Anyone who says AI erases opportunity cost needs the keys taken away, I’m sorry.
like what’s the endgame to this thinking?
Photoshop 2032 with advanced database functionality?
Blender 8.0 with a built-in home automation suite?
Maybe we’ve got Microsoft Excel with a video surveillance feature?
I get the OP is probably just auditioning for a move to VC. But it drives me absolutely up the wall to see how much success is visited upon people who don’t grasp what our actual fucking jobs are in this business.
Especially at a moment of unprecedented peril AND opportunity
bsky: @daniloc.xyz
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