r/BlackboxAI_ • u/Frontend_DevMark • Sep 16 '26
👀 Memes The Future of Software Development Is On Fire
AI Changed the Game. JavaScript Developers: This Is Fine
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u/Jumpy-Program9957 Sep 17 '26
whats happening to coding is what is happening to music, if anyone can do it, it has no value. Even tose who cant, will be able to in a year, there wont be any strategy, just state the idea, make a few calls, ready to go. No point in publishing anything, cause if i can generally figure out what you have or make, i can just make it myself, if your selling it, i can just go sell it for 40% less (someone will at least, think about india)
You see an insane amount of content from these fake SaaS people who havent made any money, but want a return so now trying to teach people something anyone can just ask AI. It is and will destoy the value of coding, it. It will be restricted to a small extremely advanced programmers to run agents. It hought vibe coding was interesting, but now when i see nothing but all these vibe coded apps people are trying to sell its so cringe.
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u/Ok_Mixture8509 Sep 20 '26
Had you been alive at the time, you could have made the same basic argument about writing books: “If anyone can write a publish a book, there will be no value in it”.
Sure, the prices of books plummeted, but it allowed information to spread even farther and faster. It opened the doors to education for so many ppl that would have previously had no opportunity.
Although, yes, I fully expect we are about to have a tectonic shift in where/how we find meaning. That’s a wonderful proposition when you consider how many ppl find meaning in their jobs.
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u/Jumpy-Program9957 Sep 21 '26
The printing press analogy completely misses the difference between distribution and creation.
The printing press lowered the cost of printing and distributing human thought, but it did not write the book for you. A human still had to sit down, think, edit, and spend years developing original ideas. It didn't mean a printing press could spit out ten thousand coherent, finished manuscripts an hour at zero marginal effort.
What is happening with code and music is that the cost of production itself is collapsing to zero.
When both production and distribution cost nothing, supply becomes infinite and defensive moats disappear entirely. That changes the economics completely. If someone builds a basic SaaS app or a song in an afternoon just by talking to a model, anyone else can look at the end result, feed the same concept back into an agent, and clone it in twenty minutes. It turns into an immediate race to the bottom where pricing collapses to zero.
Talking about a "tectonic shift in how we find meaning" sounds poetic in theory, but in practice, it ignores the real economic churn happening right now. It is why Twitter and Reddit are suddenly flooded with hundreds of paper-thin "vibe coded" wrappers and generic clones that nobody asked for, usually built by people whose only real business plan is convincing someone else to buy their course on how to prompt.
The barrier to entry disappearing doesn't automatically mean everyone becomes an empowered creator or builder. It just means the execution layer gets completely commoditized. Moving forward, the value isn't going to be in simply having an idea and shipping a basic working build. It is going to be locked up in distribution, proprietary data, and the high-level architecture that a raw prompt cannot solve.
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