alt Hacker NewsI fall into the people pissed about losing jobs camp, can you explain how you keep a cheery attitude like you do?
I geniuinely don't see what I could make with this new tech, my brain immediately goes to "this app idea is worthless, anybody can make it now".
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I've hit a weird point myself. I'm not overly interested in building software for other people now. What I'm able to do is build all my stupid hobby project ideas for my very specific use cases and not have to worry about making them profitable in order to justify the time spent on them. I just built my own point of sale system because nothing on the market meets my needs, and my needs are extremely niche.
Think bigger. Don't think in features. Think in business workflows.
You are a consumer, so you naturally think like the consumer you are. But consumers want cheap stuff and only big big businesses are able to provide cheap stuff at massive scale. So stop thinking in b2c. For us little businesses the money is in b2b. Businesses pay lots of money to have problems solved. They want to focus on their core business and outsource the rest.
Consumers hate paying subscriptions. Businesses love paying subscriptions. Because then they can make their problems someone else's problem and focus on what their actual business is.
Making an app has always been approximately 1% of the work involved in turning an idea into a business.
As the OP said really. It is very very freeing to just be able to give a task that in ye olden days you knew was going to be a pain in the arse to do, and it will do it without you. Amazing.
It's like having extra copies of yourself that you can just fork and get stuff done. E.g. the other day I was in a meeting and there were some heavy discussions about a few gnarly issues. I fired off a few prompts in parallel while the AI researches options, approaches, made a prototype etc all while I was present and paying attention still in the face to face meeting. I am so much so much more efficient as an engineer now - getting better feedback, more bonuses etc. It's never been better - I handle thinking about the requirements, the computer science and software engineering big picture etc, and the AI handles the syntax trivia for implementation.
The models are really really good now.
The only downside is that as a result of more stuff getting done, we need to have more meetings to discuss what actually needs to be worked on.