But I have so many product ideas. I am just cranking them out. If you check my GH activity, even before AI I was always "cranking them out" - just, less capable and less often. And more focused on the "technical PoC" (like DOwnloadNet, which nevertheless people found surprisingly cool and it marketed itself, even tho it was literally "done in a weekend" before AI).
Obviously one of these products is eventually gonna hit megabank. I'll figure out the marketing. Optimize the funnel. Refine all the sales. BrowserBox provides a foundation layer, but I want more hypergrowth. So I'm pushing.
Now I'm thinking - once it does happen - what will I spend my time dooing? Espeically, with AI?
I'm thinking:
- get AI to teach me all the maths I didn't make time for these years.
- use AI to improve my foreign language skills
- maybe some hardware/robotics stuff, idk.
I'm curious if anyone else is thinking of this - freed from the burden, the grind, the glory of pure creative software expression (admittedly for makin that sweet bank), what are y'all gonna do with the time (and intelligence) now widely and generally available?
Also - @dang - your "AI comment detection" is hallucinating. A bunch of my replies, to people's comments, on my own posts have been "evanescoed" away. These replies were, on the Grave's of my Ancestors and Former Tragically Depressed Friends and Lovers - hand-written by me. Something is arotten in the AI detection game, seems, rn.
Ninnies - warm up your flagging batons - I sense you haven't had enough outlet today yet. Let's go!
The future I see is more specialised software. Perhaps sewage management workers need something done, which currently is put up for tender and sales people make claims of what it is you really need, promise the world and a pony, then management looks at the list of promises from everyone. They don't much notion of the problem at hand and the promises are deliberately vague on tricky details, so they go with the one that was cheapest. Then the workers get something that doesn't work and they spend a year doing service requests to get what they want while going massively over budget.
Instead of all of that, if a few of the front line workers had enough knowledge to wrangle a LLM, they can solve the problem they actually have. In that instance you are not paying for the software but paying someone for their time to make it.
This used to be how things worked in general. It wasn't until things could be duplicated for free that there was incentive to jealousy hold onto your ideas and use the monopoly of intellectual property to serve copies to people.
This makes it a pure numbers game and gave vendors an incentive to lock customers in. Enshitification is the blunt end of intellectual property hitting you in the face.
I don't plan on charging for the things I generate with AI.
I could conceive of being paid to make a piece of software using AI, but barring any privacy concerns I'd want the end product to be released as public domain.