AI didn't commoditize software. It commoditized confidence.
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AI has commoditized confidence in software development, making everyone believe they can deliver production software, not just the code itself
Action Steps
- Reflect on your current software development workflow to identify areas where AI can augment your confidence
- Explore AI-powered tools to build small custom solutions for yourself or your organization
- Evaluate your SaaS subscriptions and consider canceling them if AI can provide similar functionality
- Build a small custom solution using AI to gain hands-on experience
- Assess the trade-offs between using AI-generated code and traditional software development methods
Who Needs to Know This
Software engineers, product managers, and entrepreneurs can benefit from understanding this shift in confidence and its implications on the industry and their work
Key Insight
💡 The actual disruption caused by AI is not in the code, but in the confidence people have in their ability to deliver production software
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Nowadays, everyone believes they are capable of delivering production software. This is the actual disruption - it's not about the code, it's about the confidence people have. Pieter Levels made a post on X that went viral. In it, he mentioned how AI was turning software into a commodity, and shared that he’d been canceling a bunch of SaaS subscriptions and instead building small custom solutions for himself using AI. The reactions to that post were like lightning. Indie hackers the wo
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