honestly the opposite has been true for me. I ship faster alone now than I did with a small team two years ago - the AI handles the boring scaffolding and I focus on the parts that actually matter. the real problem isn't that solo devs can't compete, it's that the bar for what counts as a product just dropped through the floor. everyone and their dog has a landing page and a waitlist now. so yeah you need marketing, you always did, but now you also need to not look like every other vibe-coded weekend project. I think the solo devs who were already good at taste and knowing what to cut will do fine. the ones who were just technically skilled but building things nobody asked for - AI doesn't fix that, it just makes it faster to build something nobody wants