Simon Willison’s Weblog

I'm still optimistic about the future of software engineering as a career.

YouTube/TikTok didn't eliminate professional film crews, they just opened up the floodgates for vastly more different types of filmed content.

LLMs won't be replacing production-grade software engineering.

... they may well drive down the price of production-grade software, but I expect that will result in a massively increased demand for it.

There's been way more demand than supply for custom software almost since computers were invented.

Originally a short thread on Twitter