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Yeah the NIH thing is super on point. small saas tools for everything is done. Bring on the hand coded custom in-house admin monolith?

Is Unix “small sharp tools” going away? Is that a relic of having to write everything in x86 and we’re now just finally hitting the end of the arc?

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No the actual thing will be zillions of little apps made by dev-adjacent folks to automate their tasks. I think we have about 30 of these lying around the office, people gpt up a streamline app, we yeet it into prod.

I am excited by the idea that small businesses with super unique problems may now be able to leverage custom software.

I have long held that high software salaries withhold the power of boutique software from its potential applications in small businesses.

It's possible we're about to see what unleashing software in small businesses might have looked like, to some degree, just with much less expert guidance and wisdom.

I am a developer so my point of view on salaries is not out of bitterness.