These posts are never written by software engineers, it’s always some tech exec, retired engineer, or VC. This author is apparently a professor at the Wharton School of Management? None of these people have to ship or maintain real products, they’re just making side projects.
The only decent software engineering perspective I’ve seen has been from Mitchell Hashimoto.
Well that’s kind of the point.
They can just summon bespoke software out of the ether that only handles the use cases of themselves and a few of their collaborators.
Making “side projects” was mot possible for non-developers before powerful LLMs. Now it is.