alt Hacker NewsMost of the economically valuable software written is pretty unique, or at least is one of few competitors in a new and growing niche. This is because software that is not particularly unique is by definition a commodity, with few differentiators. Commodity software gets its margins competed away, because if you try to price high, everybody just uses a competitor.
So goes the AI paradox: it's really effective at writing lots and lots of software that is low value and probably never needed to get written anyway. But at least right now (this is changing rapidly), executives are very willing to hire lots of coders to write software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written, and VCs are willing to fund lots of startups to automate the writing of lots of software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written.
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Agencies have switched to SaaS products and integrations via serverless or low code tooling, exactly because there is already too much of the same.
Could you give some examples? I can only imagine completely proprietary technology like trading or developing medicine. I have worked in software for many years and was always paid well for it. None of it was particularly unique in any way. Some of it better than others, but if you could show that there exists software people pay well for that AI cannot make I would be really impressed. With my limited view as software engineer it seems to me that the data in the product / its users is what makes it valuable. For example Google Maps, Twitter, AirBnB or HN.