AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
The author argues that generative AI has failed to produce the expected surge in revolutionary software companies. Instead, the technology is primarily being used to generate low-quality content and create a false sense of productivity among non-technical users.
Why it matters
It challenges the prevailing narrative that AI is a 'silver bullet' for software development and highlights the gap between hype and actual engineering output.
Not too long ago, I shared a post that I really liked by Disesdi Shoshana Cox . They went through the math of how many revolutionary tech companies we should have by now thanks to AI. With a 10x improvement on development speed, the technical aspects of launching an app are no longer a limit to reaching a target market. It seems like AI has finally provided the silver bullet that solves the problem of programmers moving so slowly.
Borrowing Disesdi's logic in their arithmetic (which is hard to argue against), after four years of open source LLMs, we should have three AirBnBs, 1 two Stripes, 2 and three Dropboxes 3 thanks to the power of AI.
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