I think people fail to realize that to value software to $0 is to destroy the point of most of it.
If it becomes so easy to write apps, then everyone can build their own. They won't need your app.
The entire point of most SaaS business revolves around the simple concept/question: build vs. buy.
So if there's no point in buying since building is so easy, then AI isn't helping you like your software product/SaaS.
I think programmers may just become the "IT person" or "webmaster" or "AI guy" at a company that needs software. Not at a separate company building it for others.
This may greatly reduce the need for programmers. This will in turn reduce the need for fancy computers like that expensive MacBook Pro. It will reduce the need for web hosting. Don't get me wrong, these things will still exist...but the demand will decrease.
Essentially it will become the biggest bubble since the dot com bust. It'll be much larger.
The dust will eventually settle and we'll all adapt to a new world with AI...but I think the years and years of over specialization could come to a screeching halt.
The industry will likely implode and suck in all of the orbiting industries along with it. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think people quite understand here. I greatly suspect there will be far fewer sales of high end computers. Compute power will continue to move to data centers.
Think about it this way. Code aside, because it's not just a coding thing. If everyone can create amazing videos and full on films with AI, then they don't need all those high end machines. They don't need tons of hard drive space that takes all the raw footage and different cuts to make a video. You prompt and the get the exact result you need. Assuming AI gets that good.
So the more we push into AI the greater than "gravity" here so to speak and the stronger the implosion. I just see an entire industry collapsing in on itself personally. If I'm believing all the FOMO logic out there.
If "we'll see our first one person billion dollar company." Whoever said that is a moron. You understand what that means, right? If anyone can do all that, then how could that even exist? Are we all going to become billionaires now? No, to say something as stupid as that is to say software is trivial and worthless. So how could anyone start a software business worth so much?
The issue is maintenance and focus. Sure, smash out an AI accounting app, payroll app, CRM, etc but now you're not in the business of selling hamburgers or whatever, you've become a conglomerate.
If it becomes so easy to write apps, then everyone can build their own. They won't need your app.
The entire point of most SaaS business revolves around the simple concept/question: build vs. buy.
So if there's no point in buying since building is so easy, then AI isn't helping you like your software product/SaaS.
I think programmers may just become the "IT person" or "webmaster" or "AI guy" at a company that needs software. Not at a separate company building it for others.
This may greatly reduce the need for programmers. This will in turn reduce the need for fancy computers like that expensive MacBook Pro. It will reduce the need for web hosting. Don't get me wrong, these things will still exist...but the demand will decrease.
Essentially it will become the biggest bubble since the dot com bust. It'll be much larger.
The dust will eventually settle and we'll all adapt to a new world with AI...but I think the years and years of over specialization could come to a screeching halt.
The industry will likely implode and suck in all of the orbiting industries along with it. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think people quite understand here. I greatly suspect there will be far fewer sales of high end computers. Compute power will continue to move to data centers.
Think about it this way. Code aside, because it's not just a coding thing. If everyone can create amazing videos and full on films with AI, then they don't need all those high end machines. They don't need tons of hard drive space that takes all the raw footage and different cuts to make a video. You prompt and the get the exact result you need. Assuming AI gets that good.
So the more we push into AI the greater than "gravity" here so to speak and the stronger the implosion. I just see an entire industry collapsing in on itself personally. If I'm believing all the FOMO logic out there.
If "we'll see our first one person billion dollar company." Whoever said that is a moron. You understand what that means, right? If anyone can do all that, then how could that even exist? Are we all going to become billionaires now? No, to say something as stupid as that is to say software is trivial and worthless. So how could anyone start a software business worth so much?