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Simon Willison on conceptual integrity: LLMs 'radically lower the cost of authoring extensions'
Willison's August 19 post pulls highlights from a Talking Postgres episode recorded with Claire Giordano on how AI changes software development, centering on conceptual integrity and whether counting lines of code still means anything. The quote he leads with is Jeremy Morrell's: "My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions." Paired with cheap sandbox primitives, the argument is that apps should ship a small accountable core and let users generate their own extensions rather than shipping every feature.
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