Incentives aren't necessary if the incremental steps are joyful.

Incentives are useful to get people to execute through a slog.

The more pain, and the farther the payoff, the more the incentive has to be to get people to do it.

But if the task is small and joyful, you don't need strong incentives at all.

Writing an app today is a massive slog, with massive amounts of effort before you having anything to show for it at all.

LLMs can make programming in the small feel less like a slog and more like being a wizard.

But what if the act of software creation could be much smaller, much more joyful?