No you dumbass

nope. as long as hardware gets created it will need something to run it
>inb4 ai
that's still software lol

>>109104511
it will end when ai helps code up an ok general solution to most problems and then also can code up a more custom version of that solution for you specifically.

>>109104537
and that solution is called software, you dumb fuck

>>109104586
op doesnt ask will software end, low iq nigger kiddo

>>109104511
No.
I have a personal pet programming project and it's so exotic you can't even find any books on the subject.
It's one of those unthinkable ideas, you need a completely new language capable to express this stuff.
This is how I even discovered it, I made a "what if" programming language, build some stuff with it, wanted to go full retard to see where it ends up and from abstraction to abstraction some kind of interesting concept emerged.

>>109104511
This happened in 1998.

>>109105445
No it didn't.

>>109105469
It should have.

>>109104511
There will always be more to do, but how it gets done is a huge question. Think about the layers of technology needed to mine the sun, and you'll have an idea of how far away we are from not needing something akin to software.

i want slackware but for phones
i want high battery life
fuck updating and getting more bloated

Move slow, snailcat!

>>109105477
True. I guess the question depends on whether everything else (hardware, tech in general) will reach an end point, like some kind of physical limit. Even then, you'd still need to create, deploy and maintain software for various activities. It feels like the only thing that could truly shrink the industry would be an AI so efficient that it can do all of that even when prompted by a no-coder.

>>109105469
Yes it did, nothing truly new is being made it's just new convenience features for dumb people, new flashy UI changes, or some bloatware adware bullshit. The vast majority of people only get the newer faster hardware to play new video games.

>>109105546
Search, Web & Browsers
Google Search (1998) — Defined modern web search.
Wikipedia (2001) — Collaborative knowledge base that transformed reference publishing.
Mozilla Firefox (2002) — Open-source browser that challenged Internet Explorer dominance.
Google Chrome (2008) — Became the dominant global browser with a fast V8 engine.

Social Media & Communication
Facebook (2004) — Redefined online social networking.
YouTube (2005) — Standardized online video distribution.
Twitter (2006) — Popularized microblogging and real-time news.
WhatsApp (2009) — Global mobile messaging standard.
Instagram (2010) — Influenced visual social media culture.

Mobile & Operating Systems
Mac OS X (2001) — Modern foundation of Apple’s desktop OS line.
Windows XP (2001) — One of Microsoft’s most influential OS releases.
Ubuntu (2004) — Popularized Linux for desktop users.
iOS (2007) — Powered the iPhone revolution.
Android (2008) — Became the world’s most widely used mobile OS.

Development & Programming Tools
Git (2005) — Revolutionized distributed version control.
GitHub (2008) — Centralized collaborative software development.
Node.js (2009) — Enabled JavaScript on servers.
Docker (2013) — Transformed application deployment.
Kubernetes (2014) — Standard for cloud-native infrastructure.
Visual Studio Code (2015) — Widely used modern developer editor.

Web Frameworks & Internet Platforms
WordPress (2003) — Powers a large share of websites.
React (2013) — Major UI framework for web apps.
TensorFlow (2015) — Accelerated modern AI development.

Cloud & Infrastructure (major influence software platforms)
Amazon Web Services (2006 era) — Defined cloud computing at scale.
Microsoft Azure (2010) — Major enterprise cloud competitor.

Media & Streaming
Spotify (2008) — Popularized subscription-based music streaming.
Netflix (streaming era, late 2000s–2010s software platform) — Transformed video consumption.
Key idea (big picture)

Oh, and obviously the AI that wrote this.

>>109105573
You know there were search engines before Google, right? Altavista was good. The Web wasn't shit up with JS. Admittedly I prefer git now but subversion worked fine. Everything else on your list is pure shit.

>>109105573
>the AI that wrote this
Ah so that's why it reads like bullet points in a powerpoint spewed out by a corporate bullshitter.
Revolutionized, standardized, influenced, redefined, transformed, it's all just barf inducing puffed up lies.
Also everything on that list is just a fresh coat of paint on an old idea. It's not actual new software, just new iterations on products to be consoomed.

>>109105611
>>109105648
I agree with the broader point that it's a ton of adware corpo garbage (even before enshittification). But I wouldn't be that dismissive, a lot of that list improves on past tech, even if it's bundled with a ton of other nonsense.

>>109104511
For that to happen all other professions must stale too.
People don't pay a programmer because he is good at computers, unfortunately.