(Just in case the full article gets cut off, you can read this post online here: https://skventures.substack.com/p/societys-technical-debt-and-softwares)
Someone is wrong on the internet
I’ve seen this article/newsletter/whitepaper(?) titled “Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment” from SK Ventures all over the place this past week. In it, the authors Paul Kedrosky & Eric Norlin argue that either now or very soon, Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT will allow anyone to easily write software, and accordingly the cost of writing software will fall, like, a ton.