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It's worse even than that. Although I personally wouldn't pay for a bespoke hand designed piece of furniture I can at least see that it is an artisan piece and understand the rationale.

Software is all shit anyway, it just helps me get a job done. How would artisanal software even distinguish itself. Leave the visual appearance aside. I mean the functionality.

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Well for one, a lot of people now solo dev a project with AI and then often seem to abandon the project. There's not much sense of owndership in some of it. I try and use software that has as little AI influence as possible.

I have so many abandoned projects before ai. In fact these days i’m returning to the and finishing them off.

>How would artisanal software even distinguish itself.

artisanal software is software that has a bound on the complexity. A human has to reason about it.

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