When software becomes fast food

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Generative AI, like ChatGPT, has seen rapid adoption, with ChatGPT reaching one million users in just five days.
Multiple companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Alibaba Cloud, and Meta, are advancing AI models, each specializing in different areas.
The software industry has shifted from a golden age of high salaries and quick promotions to a focus on profitability, leading to layoffs.
AI is disrupting white-collar jobs first, making software production more statistical and code generation cheaper.
The value of average developers decreases, while true experts in architecture, design, and judgment become more valuable.
Coding is transitioning into a commodity phase, where competitive advantage lies in architecture, integration, and product vision.
The restaurant industry serves as an analogy for software's future, with value concentrated in a few elite players (power-law distribution).
Developers can adapt by becoming AI operators, true experts, or deciders in product and strategy.
Managers must shift focus from task coordination to managing complexity, strategy, and expertise curation.
AI is industrializing software, making production easy but judgment the new bottleneck, leading to a power-law distribution of value in the industry.

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