Benn Stancil’s commentary about the changing nature of software development (vibe coding is all the rage now, kids!) draws an important conclusion: If developing software (aka writing code) becomes more and more democratized, what stronghold do places like Silicon Valley have on innovation?
Taking this thought a step further – if the value is less and less in the software development process and rather in domain expertise in the problem space, will we see a geographic shift of innovation ecosystems toward their respective client spaces?
Just as it's becoming harder to out-write an LLM, it's becoming harder to out-develop one too. And if experts can prompt their way to a product just as easily as those of us in Silicon Valley can, what winning talent are we left with?
