Simon Willison’s Weblog

Every wave of technological innovation has been unleashed by something costly becoming cheap enough to waste. Software production has been too complex and expensive for too long, which has caused us to underproduce software for decades, resulting in immense, society-wide technical debt. This technical debt is about to contract in a dramatic, economy-wide fashion as the cost and complexity of software production collapses, releasing a wave of innovation.

— Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin

# 27th March 2023, 5:14 pm / ai, software-development, generative-ai, llms, technical-debt