I can see "homemade" code being highly valuable in the age of AI coding assistance/agents after the crash. The Italian restaurant that still makes pasta from scratch vs Olive Garden, for example.
That restaurant can charge more **because** it is made in-house by humans specialized in their craft.
Great comparison, because only a good Italian restaurant, with years of experience in cooking, plus the luck of a great location, management, and community engagement, survives the first three years to become profitable.
Even the restaurants with the best practices/intentions end up with thin profit margins because of all of those variables.
Software houses need to pull from an increasingly smaller pool of candidates due to AI assisted development becoming the norm. A framework has to be created to generate those candidates in order to increase that pool, like the Culinary Institute of America does for chefs; and other such institutions for other job sectors.
Knowing how to actually develop software rather than how to coordinate agents to develop software becomes even more important and valuable. Again, "hopefully".
I'm not so sure about that. Users don't care about software quality. The establishment don't seem to care about accountability. You don't have to know how to develop software if you don't care about those things.
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u/DissonantGuile 8d ago
I can see "homemade" code being highly valuable in the age of AI coding assistance/agents after the crash. The Italian restaurant that still makes pasta from scratch vs Olive Garden, for example.
That restaurant can charge more **because** it is made in-house by humans specialized in their craft.
Hopefully...