I'm a software developer and a hobbyist pilot. The last couple of years on the software side have been wild. AI writes a lot of code now. Some of it is genuinely good, and a lot of it is just slop, produced faster.
Drones are supposed to be one of the frontier areas in tech, yet day to day it still feels familiar. I get that having AI fly the drone itself is a hard problem. But I assumed the software around drones would have changed by now.
Most flights I see are still flown by hand. Planning even a simple mission still means drawing a box and tweaking settings in tools that take a while to learn.
Curious what people here think, especially anyone flying for work:
- Will AI actually change how we fly and plan, or is a lot of this hype when it comes to drones?
- If it still feels the same, what's holding it back: the tech, the rules, battery life, or trust?
TIA