Say I wanted an app , could I just ask AI to write me the software and voila now I have the app for free.

  • DougPiranha42
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    12 hours ago

    Of course, and this was also true before LLMs. Don’t want to buy MS Word? Just write a word processor.
    The only catch is that it’s likely several orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult to write software for personal use (with or without AI) than to purchase it or to use a free alternative.

    Using AI to write scripts and macros to automate tasks that didn’t worth automated previously, is definitely a thing though. Someone link the xckd which explains the function between time spent on automation and time gained on not having to do the task.