Two years ago, a colleague asked me "concretely, what's a way in which you think AI is going to change the world?"

I said: the way we relate to and use software. We will stop writing or installing it.¹ We'll instead have an AIs that dynamically write our programs for us.

Two years later, I'm feeling even more confident about this. Claude Code and Codex are the worst they'll ever be, and they're already one-shotting simple webapps.

Check out this ~special~ metronome I asked Codex to make.²

I wanted it for months, but never got around to making it myself, because to code it by hand would take more time than the idea was worth. But now I can get it made in 30 seconds, provided I have my laptop on me.

The next step could be making it possible to create these apps by typing a prompt on my phone: "Write a single-page vanilla JS web app at this URL that does X, Y, and Z."

The model writes it and stages it somewhere. I'd maybe ask for a few iterations, and once satisfied, deploy it on my site.³

I think this kind of capability would be really useful, and I'm sure the ergonomics of such a thing will improve rapidly. Also their capabilities and possible complexity, incorporating our phones' cameras and gyroscopes and what have you.

For now, it remains a niche power among those who are somewhat technical or tool-making. But it seems kind of easy to commodify and market: what could be more useful than making it easy to make useful things?

basically, we're all going to become Geordi Laforge, Chief Prompt Engineer, and everything will go great. There will be no problems.