This sounds right until you realise how much market share Windows captured, held and now even solidifies from the Ballmer era.

I don't agree with you, and I believe the Ballmer era did wonders for Windows and was a turbulent period. The new era of MS now is quite stable because of this.

"cut a deal" is an idiom.

"cuts ____ deals" is not and more closely resembles the removal of deals related to ____.

It'll be okay. We "destroyed" photography by uploading to places like Instagram and Facebook but photography as a whole is still alive. It turns out even though there is lots of stealing, the world still spins and people still seek out original creators.

You actually don't have to rebuild anything in Factorio. That's your personal decision.

I mean, theoretically...

Working on tourist visas is illegal... ?

What's the difference between buying an iPhone and taking one from the Apple store? You get an iPhone at the end of both.

> starting a fullstack project from scratch, and i'm stupefied by the result.

Really? That's possibly the easiest task you could have asked it to do.

i generated the project, then added features, which meant adding new tables , forms, api endoints, navigation. Then asked for subtle changes in the way the fields were edited. At one point i asked it to "make the homepage look a bit more professional", and it did.

In what world is this "the easiest task" ??

I can do all this in my sleep. Except "a bit more professional" as I suck at design.

I could do all this in my sleep when I was in my second year of career, and now I'm in my 24th year (god, I'm old).

What you described isn't just easy, it's trivial, and extremely boilerplate-y. That's why these automated token prediction machines are reasonably good at it.

i think we’re not talking about the same thing. I’m not saying it’s hard for a experienced software dev. I’m saying it requires a level of skill that is on par with a professional software developer. Meaning this system can already replace a huge chunk of the jobs in the industry.

And you are very wrong.

I hope you're right. Future will tell..

Our world?

You created something from scratch that used several boilerplate components with general use cases.

The amount of times professional devs do this is probably almost nil on the scale of the world.

Yeah. The only way this revolution doesn't happen is if humans are cheaper, easier to manage or source. And I'm pretty sure AI is already beating a human in all those categories doing the same job.

Our jobs aren't replaced yet because they can't be.

If you think the revolution starts with 8 billion people you're just plain wrong.

It starts with the first world and is very perceivable.

How did we perceive cars replacing horses? Well for one they were replaced in the first world... now imagine how fast a piece of software can change reality.

It's not there yet, and you can't perceive it because so.

> it's not there yet

It's literally everywhere around me.

Coworkers, friends in other companies, business owner friends writing their first code, NGO friends using it to write grants.

I'm not sure where you are, but you appear to be isolated from the real world.

Huh?

Did you not read the context of the comments you're replying to or something?

People using the tool isn't the same as those people being replaced by the tool. Why would anyone think those are the same?

When exactly did you perceive cars replacing the horse? I happen to live in a very equestrian area; I think you'd be hard pressed to convince folks that the horses have even been replaced

The same time the rest of the world did, around the period of WW2. You being in an isolated bubble is irrelevant.

What a weird reply.

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