The Point

I’ve been struggling a bit with two seemingly contradictory views that I hold: I hugely value AI-generated code, 3D models, and even mockups of my kitchen redecoration. I intensely dislike AI-generated posts, articles, documents, books, music, photos, films etc. This is my best effort at reconciling those views. What is the point? The point of software development is not code, and it was never about the code; it’s about the problems software can solve. Ultimately no one cares if your app is hand-written code artistically crafted, code generated by an AI, or 1000 hamsters in a trench coat. Does it work? Does it solve the problem? If so, no one cares about the intermediate steps. The wider world cares as much about the code developers write as developers care about the Java byte code, Ruby VM instructions, or compiled assembler generated by their tools. The point of generating some recent 3D models using AI was not the model itself. It really wasn’t even the eventual object that emerged…