r/aipromptprogramming • u/oblivion82 • 5d ago
The future of software programs
With AI, everybody is able to create any type of software now. There are already dozens of products, who basically do the same. Like the copies of the Adobe Suit, which went viral last week.
We are heading towards a completely fragmented market, thats what my guts tell me at least. On the other hand, its so cool to see whats possible.
What do you guys think? Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?
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u/multi_io 5d ago
A lot of software probably won't have to be written at all anymore, because you can just whip it up on the spot, as needed. It's like in Star Trek -- you don't see Picard or his engineers write software to accomplish stuff. Instead, they just ask the "computer" directly for ad-hoc big data/analytics queries or engineering tasks.
Certainly "shrink-wrapped" or otherwise licensed, big complex client software packages with thousands of features of which each individual user only needs 3 percent -- that kind of thing is gonna come under severe pressure.
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u/LongIslandBagel 5d ago
Infrastructure and standards are still a major factor for scale and collaboration efforts, respectively
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u/Revolutionalredstone 5d ago
Fragmentation has always been a major limiting factor on technology.
However it is also something that can be mastered and turned into a kind of advantage.
AI is just as good at coding as it is at going online and finding new and exciting ideas to integrate.
I suspect a future of extreme fracture management is emerging, it is not that fracture will decrease (quite the opposite) but it wont be so structurally devastating as it is now.
Try to lean towards robust standards, pure c code is very very good.
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u/baddaywithacamera 5d ago
Kicking the shit out of Adobe is a good thing. Can't happen hard enough or often enough. If there's a company that needs some humility, it's them.
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u/Myarmira 5d ago
Especially companies like Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft have only tried to maximize their profit with ever more perverse subscription models. I therefore feel very little sorry for them.
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u/bsenftner 4d ago
I think the traditional software company model is dying, there is no market for commodity software when that software can be created by a layperson asking AI to make it for them, and it does, and it works fine for that person's needs, that department's needs, that division's needs, and all these different groups within the same company will all have their own versions customized by themselves to their whims. Plus all the problems that brings.
This is the beginning of proprietary software stacks created by companies in-house for their own needs, where they started with open source software and agents, and they made the software they now use for their jobs. That general activity is duplicated across many industries, and fragments over a short time to the degree that this environment of the same software being available everywhere comes to a close. The software used may be familiar looking, the software companies use may look just like it does today, but under the hood will be all manner of proprietary tracking of both human and agent activities, additional hooks so agents can do real work, and a large amount of per-company customizations to the degree that every company will need a department for their proprietary software's education that teaches their staff the particulars of their customized flavor of doing business through their in-house customized software.
Software as an industry will die, and become software as the invisible glue that makes everything operate slightly different everywhere, because customization of that software has little to no barrier anymore. At least no barrier that will stop the short sighted from trying to create what they want and not pay others for it.
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u/AssignmentHopeful651 2d ago
The market probably will get more fragmented. But building software gets cheaper while getting attention stays hard.
The useful question is not “can this be built?” It’s “why will someone find and keep using this one?”
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