alt Hacker NewsYeah I think the real values is for the Solo developers, indie hackers & side projects.
Being unrestrained by team protocols, communications, jira boards, product owners, grumpy seniors.
They can now deliver much more mature platforms, apps, consumer platforms without any form of funding. You can easily save months on the basics like multi tenant set up, tests, payment integration, mailing settings, etc.
It does seem likely that the software space is about to get even crowdier, but also much more feature rich.
There is of course also a wide array of dreamers & visionairies who know jump into the developer role. Wether or not they are able to fully run their own platform im not sure. I did see many posts asking for help at some point.
As a solo grumpy senior, I've been pumping out features over the past 6 months and am now expanding into new markets.
I've also eliminated some third party SaaS integrations by creating slimmer and better integrated services directly into my platform. Which is an example of using AI to bring some features in-house, not primarily to save money (generally not worth the effort if that's the goal), but because it's simply better integrated and less frustrating than dealing with crappy third-party APIs.