Totally new software development methodology that's never been tried before
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Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built. That’s why Andreessen Horowitz has led a new $10 million Series A for Gigster just 18 weeks after its launch.
The lauded venture firm was impressed with Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine. It converts a client’s product proposal into a development plan, and helps Gigster’s army of remote developers plug in pre-made code blocks to efficiently build the app.
OK, trying to do that with AI instead of people working as business analysts is kind of new. But I can't imagine why it would be any better than people at predicting how the people writing the requirements didn't write what they actually wanted yesterday, let alone next week.
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No coding.
helps Gigster’s army of remote developers plug in pre-made code blocks to efficiently build the app.
So much for no coding!
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I think they mean that the guy paying gigster doesn't have to code.
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I don't think adding more layers of indirection to software development is a good idea. You gotta be able to talk to the users of the program.
Who knows. Maybe these guys have come up with economies of scale and can do it cheaper. Maybe it won't even suck.
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Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine. It converts a client’s product proposal into a development plan,
Looks like next year's April Fools day is early.
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It's easy, just glue the code parts together! You have your database code, and your server code, and your client code, just put them together.
Also:
pre-made code blocks...efficient...
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I can't imagine why it would be any better than people at predicting how the people writing the requirements didn't write what they actually wanted yesterday, let alone next week.
You're just a Luddite who fears change.
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The lauded venture firm was impressed with Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine.
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Perhaps its biggest challenge will be retaining quality and speed as it scales up.
Perhaps.
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Oh look, another small startup that somehow managed to create the first strong AI in the world and didn't even bother telling anyone.
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Hey, that's an image from Hackers right there! That must mean it's serial!
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[quote=You Can't Tip a Buick]As I understand it (please, anyone who is actually Silicon Valley rather than just Silicon Valley-adjacent feel free to correct me), Silicon Valley venture capitalists work by a strategy sort of like how crabs reproduce. They've got a lot of money (something like 70% of all venture capitalist money in America is in Silicon Valley), each startup is fairly cheap in terms relative to that pile of money, and so they fairly indiscriminately produce large numbers of baby startups with the knowledge that most of them will fail. Nevertheless, they still have criteria they use to choose who they fund. Do the founders have degrees from Stanford? Did they drop out of Stanford? Are they young, are they male, are they white, do they wear hoodies to business meetings, etc. etc. You don't have to have meet all of those criteria to get funding, but the more you have, the more likely you are to get funded. The important thing to note, though, is that none of the criteria determining whether a baby startup can get funding have anything to do with the product being made or its physical feasibility. The products of most startups are in some way or another non-feasible; you know this because most startups fail. [/quote]
I might become slightly inclined to take this crew seriously if they're still at it by this time next year. Until then, I've got them filed in the same drawer as The Last One. I have lost count of the number of times I've seen bright young things misunderstand software construction as a primarily technical problem.
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If most intelligent humans can't even figure out what a client wants, why do we expect AI to solve that problem for us?
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. If some of the most successful humans can persuade clients that what they've made is what the client wants, how much more successful will an ai be at that?
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question; though my new business partner, lately having amassed a modest fortune at Three-card Monte, has devised an ingenious method for monetising it.
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Requirements: I want a version of this software, except that it actually works.
{clicks SUBMIT}
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The problem with running a business that makes software that makes software is that someone can make your software make your software and then they can steal your customers with zero cost.
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Software that makes software should have no trouble making customers as well. Or at least something resembling customers closely enough to grab another round of VC funding.
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"Make me a program that makes me money without me having to do anything."
followed by
"Make me a program that renders Dwarf Fortress in really high res 3D."
followed by
"Make me a program that lets me unsee what I have just seen."
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Jesus Jones International Bright Young Thing
TIL that somebody other than me knows that song.
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Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app.
Sweet!
Hi, I'd like an app that can accurately factor integers (up to 128 MB in size) in real-time, please.
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It's just a matter of time until Samaritan shuts them down.
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"Make me a program that makes me money without me having to do anything."
followed by
"Make me a program that renders Dwarf Fortress in really high res 3D."
followed by
"Make me a program that lets me unsee what I have just seen."
QFHIIHBBW
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"Make me a program that renders Dwarf Fortress in really high res 3D."
followed by
"Make me a nude mod for aforementioned game."
Don't deny it, you know it's true.
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[spoiler]
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that seems graphically way to advanced for DF
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I am aware, but that's the closest I could get by just using my knowledge of obscure stuff and GIS. Anything more would be work.
It's Atari 2600 btw, in case anyone is wondering. For more obscure stuff, you can try asking @aliceif or @Magus
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Are you angling for a mod position or something?
That would require clicking on PMs to clear the flag notifications. Fuck that noise.
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For more obscure stuff, you can try asking @aliceif or @Magus
You forgot @ChaosTheEternal.
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You forgot @ChaosTheEternal.
I almost managed to do it! Until now...
"I speedrun Castlevania for fun...". Fucker. I broke two controllers in that fucking hallway... mumble
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I don't speedrun it. A half hour is a terrible speedrun time. I just ran through it cause I'd felt like playing it again.
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Look, I had to justify my crappy memory somehow... ;)
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Why would I need a nude mod? http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9234
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I worked in a place where the management expected a wizard they could use to quickly create a website. As I pointed out, we - the developers - were the wizards.
While some people seem to explore the dream of software development without software developers, this will always be a dream.
Sure, I foresee a world where we write less code and draw more diagrams, and I even foresee a world where we train machines to write code. The skills will change, but the requirement for deep technical comprehension will never go away, regardless of how much your management wants it to.
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Before they ask for another round of investments they should have the common decency of having their asses publicly traded so I can sell them short