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engineer_22today at 3:56 AM0 repliesview on HN

Be happy if you can be 10x more productive and charge 1/10 per unit of productivity.

There's no guarantee society needs 10x the productivity.

Yesterday I built a bespoke time keeping and billing tool in my browser for my boutique consulting gig. I got exactly what I needed and I paid about $1.

I think this piece of software could power my business for 2-3 years... If my business is very successful maybe I'll invest $2 to develop a GUI.

No SaaS needed. Software demand was actually surpressed by AI.

I don't need 10x more software. I need simple software at 1/100th the cost, on demand. And AI promises to give it to me. The most beautiful part is there's multiple market entrants competing for my bid.

Imagine OpenAI invented ICE engines and the world was dotted with lakes of crude oil, all we needed was refineries. That's the world we're in.

Now that should make you think.