How AI Will Transform Software Creation

There are at least four fundamental ways AI will revolutionize software development. And each represents a seismic shift just on its own!

1. When chess engines became widely available, the level of human chess play rose dramatically. The parallel for software development is clear - AI coding assistants are already accelerating learning curves by providing instant feedback and examples.
2. Chess players don't use engines during competition. Developers, however, use AI constantly during work. This creates an immediate productivity multiplier that will reshape the economics. One person unicorns will be possible.
3. The barriers to entry for software development have historically selected for a specific personality type willing to endure abstraction and tedium. AI eliminates these filters. Software will be democratized, entirely new categories of people going to be creators with different perspectives, sensibilities, and goals. The range of creativity will extend far beyond what today's engineering culture can provide.
4. Just as concrete revolutionized Roman architecture by enabling previously impossible structures, AI will introduce multiple fundamental innovations simultaneously. The software equivalent of concrete, steel frames, and elevators are arriving all at once. This won't merely improve existing paradigms - it will create entirely new categories of software that were previously unimaginable.

This is just software. Similar magnitude of change will happen for every profession.