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The value is in the difficulty

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Tipsad 2026-05-19 på Anders Ytterströms webblogg

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Before language models, writing software required significant and genuine expertise, time and capital. Most users didn't need to understand how code worked to understand that it was bloody hard. You'd hire a developer, or teams of them, pay them a boat load of money, and they'd spend months working on something hard. That effort was visible and it priced the market.

There was a real scarcity of people who could write code well. Years of training, accumulated pattern recognition, architectural instincts. That stuff took time to develop. You couldn't shortcut it to the level that shipped reliable, scalable AAA software. That constraint is now going, or gone.

Som analogi till hur LLM:er påverkar värderingen av mjukvaruutveckling, nämns vad som hänt med musikindustrin på grund av Internet.

We've seen this arc before, and music is the richest analogy.

Pre-internet, making and releasing music was genuinely expensive. Recording, pressing, distribution, promotion all cost real money and required real experts and gatekeepers. Fewer artists got through, but of those who did, a meaningful proportion could make a half-decent living. Then DAWs, MP3s, P2P sharing, and MySpace arrived almost all at once. Anyone could record and release a professional-sounding track for next to nothing.

The filters collapsed almost overnight.

I slutändan är det dock inte detta som spelar roll. Bara för att det går att bygga en klon av Facebook på en helg, betyder inte det att man kommer att få lika stor framgång som Facebook. Ens egna nätverk spelar istället foll, precis som distributionsstrategi och djup, genuin domänkunskap.


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