It's fascinating ...didn't think about the Bus Factor at all wrt vibe coding. Feels obvious in retrospect. But I feel there's the other side of software beyond the maintanable, professional-grade software requirements. There are a lot of use cases for basic software to solve that one problem in that one specific way and get it over with. A bit like customized software with little scope and little expectation of long-term support. Vibe-coding excels there.
In a way, I have been thinking about it [1] as the difference between writing a book and a writing a blog post - the production qualities expected in both are wildly different. And that's expected, almost as a feature!
I think as “writing” and distributing new software keeps getting easier - as easy as writing a new blog post - the way we consume software is going to change.
Unfortunately, that's the exact problem here: Google tried to force their Indian application internationally without exactly understanding the differences between different markets (big one is forced mobile number registration, which I understand is not a big deal in India but it's a significant friction in the US). For users outside of India, it is a mess compared to how Apple (and even Samsung at this point) does it.
Is this down through the old Google Pay app, not through the newer Wallet app? I use "Google Pay", as in the payment processor, every day, but it is being done through the wallet app.
Probably, but LLMs seem to gain more understanding from seeing lots of different examples than they do from a few examples of good code so people won't stop scraping stackoverflow.
And that, on mobile, you're sometimes offline. Desktops and especially laptops are meant for use in fixed places like homes and offices (*cough* it's the truth!), where there is internet available, so you don't need an app to have your data cached offline.
Pardon my french, but Play Store is a bloody mess. My parents and grandparents have a lot of trouble navigating it to find what they need. They have less trouble with f-droid, probably also because it's not overflowing with adware and other crap that they need to wade through on google
For what it's worth, Google results continue to show the F-droid, GitHub and all other links for NewPipe for me. May be, because I'm accessing it from outside USA
In a way, I have been thinking about it [1] as the difference between writing a book and a writing a blog post - the production qualities expected in both are wildly different. And that's expected, almost as a feature!
I think as “writing” and distributing new software keeps getting easier - as easy as writing a new blog post - the way we consume software is going to change.
[1]: https://world.hey.com/akumar/software-s-blog-era-2812c56c