PirijanMar 4, 2025

[New Blog Post] The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era

https://pketh.org/the-human-tools-era.html

The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era

At the dawn of the industry, we needed big companies to deliver quality software. You’d buy version 1.0 because the way it worked was revolutionary, and it let you do amazing new things. You’d buy version 2.0 because it added helpful new features. Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. became household names because software was hard to make, and even harder to box up and get on store shelves.

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@pirijan reminds me of Linus Lee's writing about building one's own tools – an even deeper level of enthusiast perhaps?

https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/

(I also think a more interesting world with LMs might be one where enthusiast non-coders leverage them to make custom and personal tools. of course the corporations don't want us leaving their tools so that would still remain niche!)

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools | thesephist.com

Mar 4, 2025 at 5:29pmWeb
Show threadPirijanMar 4, 2025
@sphygmus for sure - a lot of ppl excited by no-code both before and with llms , but I haven’t seen it generate anything non-trivial and maintainable so far