Comment by AndrewKemendo
12 hours ago
Your severely underestimating the idea that people are just not going to use developers for certain things in the future
For example I don’t anticipate somebody making a living off of making website ever again
Somebody with absolutely no technical experience who needs a website for their business can now make one with almost no money whatsoever.
That’s good enough for their business. and the code can be totally shit and it does not matter because it’s meeting their business objectives. I am seeing this in the wild and I’m paying money to companies that have these types of websites and because it doesn’t matter I don’t need for the website to work perfectly on all my devices all I need to be able to do is pay them through the website which is what they need me to do and our transaction is done.
Don’t forget ultimately the people who pay technologists right now are primarily advertisers
work on hard problems is going to continue to be some tiny fraction percentage of the software engineering discipline
just expect a total bloodbath because the goal isn’t developer productivity the goal is that “I don’t need to pay somebody $200,000 a year to build a website authoring tool like WordPress.”
Why would a small business use a coding agent to build a custom website when they could use something like Squarespace or Shopify with prebuilt templates that mean they have to know even less than if they were to use some kind of chat UI?
Cause it’s still easier and cheaper apparently
This is the most recent example I found last week for a local barber:
https://manus.im/
And my other assumption is that it immediately integrates with IG/Facebook which is where they do a lot of their marketing
I see no reason that trend is going to slow, especially if you can go to meta to manage your entire business marketing.
Regular people running business just want fast cheaps and good enough.