Open intent software

I’m seeing a new class of software emerging, which I call Open Intent Software (OIS). Open intent means software shipped as a description of what it would do, and instructions for a coding agent to build it. For a long time we basically had two types of software to work with: closed source and open source software. Closed source is usually paid, an individual or more often a company developing the software, packaging it for certain platforms and cases, and maintaining various services around it. Open source is different, at the most basic level only the source is available, though most developers maintain various packaging, like a Windows installer or a Linux binary. In theory open source is more flexible, since people could change the source code, or bring the software to their own platform. In practice changing code needs almost as much knowledge as creating the original source, while packaging needs at the minimum some tinkering and technical knowledge. So to most people it’s…