Software Is Dead. Really?

Roberto Pieraccini posted a response to Mark Cuban’s recent statement: “Software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Roberto argues that software is not dead, not yet. “What is dying is not software as such but one particular thing the term refers to: software as the artifact a person laboriously writes and painstakingly maintains. Today almost anyone can build an application, including people who had never written a line of code until yesterday. And they can do that by describing what they want to an AI model, in English or in one of many other world languages, and letting it assemble the rest. However, much of what gets built that way will be disposable, regenerated from scratch on a whim rather than corrected and kept. And, honestly, a fair amount of it will simply be junk. That is real, and it is the grain of truth in Cuban’s statement.” Read more