Speaker argues that software development has become much cheaper and more accessible, enabling anyone to prototype small software experiments. These lightweight prototypes attract more engagement than essays or videos and may lead to platforms (e.g., Replit) that serve as a "YouTube of software" for non-professional creators.
Software is much cheaper to make now. And one of the things we found is that if we release a little experiment as a piece of software, all of the experiments we run are much better at attracting audience and email than any given essay or YouTube video or whatever because it's this totally new format of thing. And so like in the same way that on Instagram you can take pictures and TikTok you can take videos on YouTube and those are different from like Hollywood films, but they're still videos. I think that we're sort of. We've been living in the world of like, software is sort of like a Hollywood movie. Like, you need a lot of money and time to make it. And now, like, with all these tools expanding beyond who are professional developers and anyone can make a little prototype and that switch is sort of like anyone can kind of like write a blog post, anyone can do a tweet. It's going to be the same thing. I don't think that there aren't really platforms yet for this, but I think there's going to be like a YouTube of software development, maybe like replit. Is that to some degree. And it's not for. For professional coders, it's for like people who just grew up prompt.
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