Notes
- What is a more holistic vision for LoFi?
- 2004: βsituated softwareβ
- References An app can be a home cooked meal
- i.e. small apps for your friends and family
- Finally possible in the past few years :)
- βWeβre in the industrial high modernism era of softwareβ
- Professional software tries to flatten all needs to what the majority of (high paying / wealthy) users need
- Low cost / low profit software is an oportunity!
- β¦but software is too hard today
- We still want end-user software
- β¦but what if it started getting much easier?
- Barefoot doctors were a programme in China to bring folks from rural areas to get some basic health training,and re-embed them into their communities
- Note: not MDs
- Live expectance rose from ~30 to ~65 over 10 years(!)
- What if LLMs enable the same for software?
- How do we build in LoFi into the default
- If we get this future without LoFi, weβll be stuck in a SaaS dystopia
- LoFi and home-cooked software have a similar philosophy