> OP, I sure it’s just a transition. AI will get faster, feedback loops shorter, and we will be back at a more traditional flow state.
You are right that it is a transitional state, but the end of the transition isn't that developers return to flow, it is that developers no longer have any reason to be employed.
The end state (assuming LLMs and other AI systems continue to improve at current rates or better) is one where everyone can produce any kind of digital content quickly with minimal toil.
Some people, who imagine themselves as modern Jobs-esque idea men of great taste like the idea of this but they aren't fully thinking about the consequences of easy content creation.
If you can get an LLM to produce a product of such clearly great design through your innate sense of taste, many someone elses can also point their agentic LLMs at your product, clone everything good about it very quickly and undersell you in a rapid race to zero value in a market that is a sea of competing noise.
As AI systems continue to improve at their core ability of mimicry there will be no moats in software anymore, for anyone.
