alt Hacker News> why should someone pay that business to solve whatever problem it solves instead of also getting the AI to solve it?
well because presumably even in that brave new world, solving the problem with AI is still not trivial, even if it requires just one person. If a potential customer wants to solve it themselves instead of buying, they would have to find the right person, invest in his time and tokens, and end up with a custom solution they'd have to support.
What do we consider trivial? What are we measuring effort by? Yes, people have different skills from each other, and different resources they might have differential access to, but the value of the business is constrained by that differential, and we are purporting that a technology can build you stuff with the effort of only one person that somehow still supports a business worth billions of dollars? How much more effort does it have to take to build something before you'll pay for it? Pay how much? And if people are making companies without hiring employees, how much can how many people pay for it in the first place?
Also worth noting that you don't gotta do much to support software (or any solution) that only one person uses