The value was never really in the building, it was just hidden by how expensive building used to be. When making the thing was the hard part, you could mistake "I built it" for "I have a business." Now that the build is cheap, that illusion is gone, which is uncomfortable but clarifying, and sighs building something OTHER people want is still arguably hard...
There are now three kinds of apps. The old kind, big standardized ones where the same kinds of customers buy the same kinds of app, like Spotify or Oracle.
Then there are the new DIY apps made with AI. These are for use cases that wouldn't exist and wouldn't get an IT budget otherwise. That's personal software and small projects inside a group at work without a professional dev.
The third group is bespoke software built together by the client, an AI expert consultant who learns about their business, and a fleet of coding agents. In that case, the company needs the AI devs initially and maybe occasionally later but mostly runs the custom software without devs.
The unit of work is now a 'prompt'. Imagine recreating different classes of software... there is correlation between complexity (ie # of prompts) and value. Make an app so complex, no one has tried it.
The value was never really in the building, it was just hidden by how expensive building used to be. When making the thing was the hard part, you could mistake "I built it" for "I have a business." Now that the build is cheap, that illusion is gone, which is uncomfortable but clarifying, and sighs building something OTHER people want is still arguably hard...
I'll take the bait.
There are now three kinds of apps. The old kind, big standardized ones where the same kinds of customers buy the same kinds of app, like Spotify or Oracle.
Then there are the new DIY apps made with AI. These are for use cases that wouldn't exist and wouldn't get an IT budget otherwise. That's personal software and small projects inside a group at work without a professional dev.
The third group is bespoke software built together by the client, an AI expert consultant who learns about their business, and a fleet of coding agents. In that case, the company needs the AI devs initially and maybe occasionally later but mostly runs the custom software without devs.
The unit of work is now a 'prompt'. Imagine recreating different classes of software... there is correlation between complexity (ie # of prompts) and value. Make an app so complex, no one has tried it.
Given that cooking is easy at home, shouldn't all restaurants and cafés close?
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