I'm not sure it should, or even would, work like that.
The future I see is more specialised software. Perhaps sewage management workers need something done, which currently is put up for tender and sales people make claims of what it is you really need, promise the world and a pony, then management looks at the list of promises from everyone. They don't much notion of the problem at hand and the promises are deliberately vague on tricky details, so they go with the one that was cheapest. Then the workers get something that doesn't work and they spend a year doing service requests to get what they want while going massively over budget.
Instead of all of that, if a few of the front line workers had enough knowledge to wrangle a LLM, they can solve the problem they actually have. In that instance you are not paying for the software but paying someone for their time to make it.
This used to be how things worked in general. It wasn't until things could be duplicated for free that there was incentive to jealousy hold onto your ideas and use the monopoly of intellectual property to serve copies to people.
This makes it a pure numbers game and gave vendors an incentive to lock customers in. Enshitification is the blunt end of intellectual property hitting you in the face.
I don't plan on charging for the things I generate with AI.
I could conceive of being paid to make a piece of software using AI, but barring any privacy concerns I'd want the end product to be released as public domain.
I think that’s wrong. Your wetware LLM already trained on and depends on the world, and your ability to use a silicon LLM is also part of you. If you discard the products of your expertise by relinquishing any IP, and forgo the asset value capture associated with that, only accepting money for time, because you use a silicon LLM, it’s your choice but it seems dumb. Tho, if we remove bank from the question (you already have all the bank you need) - then I guess it makes sense.
I guess i personally might not dedicate my time to building software in that case, tho the general service to humanity vibe resonates.
Is this hypothetical, or are you fully bank satisfied? No need to answer if squeamish
On the other: I don’t think bad software need be the result of IP. Nor lock in. I see it like developing commercial / residential property. You own IP assets and you can lease them or you can sell them specifically it’s like apartment buildings. The copies are the separate units. That’s how I see it and it seems the incentive from how I see it is with the vendor to maintain those properties. Keep them serviceable and up-to-date and modern.
I have no experience with no taste for nor offer any support to the lock in idea. Though that attitude seems to be causative of bad quality than any IP ownership from my view.
I apologize, I did not mean to rain on your parade - maybe I am a kind of "half empty" person.
Please, keep your enthusiasm up! In a world full of cynics (me included), it's refreshing to see people throwing themselves into their projects with zest and passion.
I'm not sure it should, or even would, work like that.
The future I see is more specialised software. Perhaps sewage management workers need something done, which currently is put up for tender and sales people make claims of what it is you really need, promise the world and a pony, then management looks at the list of promises from everyone. They don't much notion of the problem at hand and the promises are deliberately vague on tricky details, so they go with the one that was cheapest. Then the workers get something that doesn't work and they spend a year doing service requests to get what they want while going massively over budget.
Instead of all of that, if a few of the front line workers had enough knowledge to wrangle a LLM, they can solve the problem they actually have. In that instance you are not paying for the software but paying someone for their time to make it.
This used to be how things worked in general. It wasn't until things could be duplicated for free that there was incentive to jealousy hold onto your ideas and use the monopoly of intellectual property to serve copies to people.
This makes it a pure numbers game and gave vendors an incentive to lock customers in. Enshitification is the blunt end of intellectual property hitting you in the face.
I don't plan on charging for the things I generate with AI.
I could conceive of being paid to make a piece of software using AI, but barring any privacy concerns I'd want the end product to be released as public domain.
I think that’s wrong. Your wetware LLM already trained on and depends on the world, and your ability to use a silicon LLM is also part of you. If you discard the products of your expertise by relinquishing any IP, and forgo the asset value capture associated with that, only accepting money for time, because you use a silicon LLM, it’s your choice but it seems dumb. Tho, if we remove bank from the question (you already have all the bank you need) - then I guess it makes sense.
I guess i personally might not dedicate my time to building software in that case, tho the general service to humanity vibe resonates.
Is this hypothetical, or are you fully bank satisfied? No need to answer if squeamish
On the other: I don’t think bad software need be the result of IP. Nor lock in. I see it like developing commercial / residential property. You own IP assets and you can lease them or you can sell them specifically it’s like apartment buildings. The copies are the separate units. That’s how I see it and it seems the incentive from how I see it is with the vendor to maintain those properties. Keep them serviceable and up-to-date and modern.
I have no experience with no taste for nor offer any support to the lock in idea. Though that attitude seems to be causative of bad quality than any IP ownership from my view.
"Now I'm thinking - once it does happen - what will I spend my time dooing? Espeically, with AI?"
Not "once" - the word you are looking for is "if". And a pretty big if at that...
No way man. It's totally gonna happen. You're a glass half full kinda person, ain't ya?
I apologize, I did not mean to rain on your parade - maybe I am a kind of "half empty" person.
Please, keep your enthusiasm up! In a world full of cynics (me included), it's refreshing to see people throwing themselves into their projects with zest and passion.
There's husbandry in heaven!
You can vibe code, but you can't code vibes.
-_-
Gardening is the correct answer.
Or maybe like... getting into salt water taffy. That sounds real nice. I want some now.
Gardening.
This joke ruined my account lol. Lost all reputation and now banned from making new posts.
Nice reputation system you designed here HN!