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
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.
@danilo i think the moment the “free” word comes out, you gotta start questioning their understanding of physics, math, economics, and finite resources
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
@danilo I guess I'm also not shocked to see it come from a PM? The worse kind of PM is less interested in the labour that keeps things working rather than the pace of product.
@danilo i just watched out a LLM spit out code that would have brought down a webserver w/ an infinite loop, very nervous for when these c-levels start experimenting with launching insecure features built entirely by llms 🥴
@danilo fine. i’ll let AI fix all the bugs introduced by the new shiny features and generative UI, not knowing how the old software is held together by duct tape. a race condition here, a memory leak there, easy peasy for an AI right?
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