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Originally Posted by Russic

I think we are potentially within reach of a time when the above bolded part is more important than people realize. I know we're wired to say "but can I sell it?", but there's an interesting shift when the attention turns to creating one-off software solutions for your very strange unique-to-you problems.



I have a buddy that was starting up a small business, and when it came time to pick a CRM to manage his future clients, he just sorta made one. It's not a world-beater, and it's easily dwarfed by options readily available, but he didn't need anything robust. He needed to collect names, contact info, and notes.



This was not completely necessary (more of a test to see if he could), but it was such an easy win, he started creating all sorts of one-off solutions for weird problems he was running into.



I don't think anybody is replacing dropbox anytime soon with some weird hacky vibe-coded thing, but for those "why can't we just get a dashboard that shows me <thing>" problems, it's getting frightfully straightforward.

I'm stuck in the confines of my companies systems but AI has helped me make some really helpful excel macros that save me a ton of time. I can't "make money" off of them but they sure make me look like I'm pedal to the metal at work lol.