I don't know - I think these Vendo guys are onto something here. Businesses will absolutely need to do this.

As a data point, our users are going a step further. We gave away our desktop software as OSS and our users fork and vibe code on top with the entire stack. They get the benefit of not having JavaScript powering a media heavy app since we wrote it in Rust. Now we have users making their own tutorials about it.

I think non experts will appreciate engineers solving for smoothness, distributed systems, and all the hard parts that can back them into corners. They want to fill in the UX / workflow pieces themselves.

I think these "hard part" pillars will endure for a while longer.

But you're going to have to give away more than you've ever given away before. Treat your users as junior engineers on your team. That's the new normal.

And for full disclosure, none of our users have software backgrounds whatsoever. They're just heavy into Claude Code as complete software newbies. It's really awesome to watch them building really neat workflows.