AI Turns Software into Disposable Scratch Paper for Quick Thinking
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This is exactly right. We spent decades treating software as something built to last. It had to be maintained, reused, and worth the cost of creating. AI gives us software as scratch paper. You can spin up a dashboard to answer one question, explore a design until it feels right, or build an interactive HTML page that makes a complicated idea easier to understand. Once it has done the job, you move on. That shift is much bigger than it sounds. Software is becoming a medium for thinking. I recently taught a session on creating interactive HTML pages for exactly this kind of work. https://www.hiten.com/library/interactive-html-pages
We need to get used to the idea that code/software can now be disposable Some examples (all are discarded after usage): 1. Creating design playgrounds/modals for yourself to fine-tune the look and feel of a design 2. Creating HTML pages to help you understand the code 3. Spinning up a throwaway dashboard to inspect something once
This is exactly right. We spent decades treating software as something built to last. It had to be maintained, reused, and worth the cost of creating. AI gives us software as scratch paper. You can spin up a dashboard to answer one question, explore a design until it feels right, or build an interactive HTML page that makes a complicated idea easier to understand. Once it has done the job, you move on. That shift is much bigger than it sounds. Software is becoming a medium for thinking. I recently taught a session on creating interactive HTML pages for exactly this kind of work. https://www.hiten.com/library/interactive-html-pages
We need to get used to the idea that code/software can now be disposable Some examples (all are discarded after usage): 1. Creating design playgrounds/modals for yourself to fine-tune the look and feel of a design 2. Creating HTML pages to help you understand the code 3. Spinning up a throwaway dashboard to inspect something once