Just 1% of people building software could disrupt the industry

A widely shared argument holds that AI will disrupt the software industry once just 1% of the population can build apps, flooding supply and driving prices to zero. A related prediction envisions OS-level Siri-like assistants that generate on-demand mini-apps to lock users into vendor ecosystems.

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