If AI really solved software, why aren't prices dropping? The missing AI boost
Left-Employee-3658 · reddit · 2026-10-09
The author challenges the narrative that AI has 'solved' software engineering: if development costs truly collapsed, we should see at least one of lower consumer prices (with a Jevons paradox effect), vendors pocketing savings, or a surge of features in existing software. None is happening, so where is the AI boost in the software market? An open discussion of the gap between AI coding hype and observable market outcomes.
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