Analyzing the Fastest-Growing Software Category I’ve Ever Seen

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by Evan Armstrongin Napkin MathChatGPT/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. The fundamental promise of AI is that it will dramatically reduce the cost of making any product that has a digital component. Writers such as myself love to publicly wring our hands about how LLMs’ rapidly improving writing ability may soon put us out of a job. In a satisfyingly ironic twist of fate, though, it’s the field of software engineering that has so far been ...

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