I think this space is just about to get really interesting. Historically when a craft/skill becomes automated it pushes that craft/skill to explore all those nooks and crannies which the automation can not reach, build around and exploit all those nooks and crannies, giving them a say over form and function. We are just starting to see this happen in software with AI.
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Somehow this comes to mind: https://taxheaven3000.com/
Well put. Certainly my case with https://nocodefunctions.com
- traffic is slightly but noticeably decreasing for the last year: https://public.nocodefunctions.com
- it pushes me to improve the design, the overall quality, explore new feature spaces: https://next.nocodefunctions.com
Also, I noticed:
- at first LLMs apply a penalty to development: it requires to explore new toolings for AI assisted coding, then select and get used to one of them, that might well end up being a transient solution. e.g. Cursor, to be replaced soon by Claude Code?
- new uncertainty about which feature to develop: if I can develop it, then anyone else surely can reverse engineer it easily and replicate it? This is quite unnerving.
This, for sure. A whole lot of things that would be too tedious or naive or ineffective will get tried, and a whole lot more people will have access to try ideas, I think things should get really fun and wild for a while.
We are definitely in a period of transition. The question (for me) is whether Indie developers will be able to make a living in the new world of an Internet dominated by a few massive corporations and their AI tools.