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We’re having a Cambrian Explosion of code. People are able to create so much more than ever before I’ve done it myself and see it with the open source I maintain But I think the software industry is going to suffer

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

When I just started out developing I remember being so so so full of ideas that I was coding in my head and wished I could have done programming while commuting / on the bus. With eg a phone. But it was impossible, ofc. Now it’s possible!! A massive change

Ben Evans

@ogkittylyst.bsky.social

4 Jan

Why is this not reflected in the number of apps launched on the iPhone or Android stores, where the trendline shows no impact whatsoever since LLMs became mainstream?

Justin Garrison

@justingarrison.com

4 Jan

That’s a very good question and I think it could be 3 different reasons 1. Walled garden app stores require paid accounts which isn’t worth it for unknown returns 2. The ops overhead is a current barrier for new devs to figure out 3. Deployment friction and LLM abilities delay mobile

Justin Garrison

@justingarrison.com

I tried making a mobile app with Claude a few weeks ago and it completely failed. Spent 2 days and could get it to run in the emulator so I gave up Not to mention I don’t have a Mac so an iOS app was a non-starter

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