Comment by StrangeWill

Also: let's be honest. "I wrote a little app in a few weekends" -- "I built this in a few weeks", "this took me a month instead of a year"

These are productivity increases, sure, but still are $2000, $8000, $14000 of labor.

And doesn't count continued increase build time, more features, maintenance. The $20/mo SaaS isn't going away, and work can't pay you to endlessly tinker on fun internal projects and save $1200 of subscriptions for your $120k/yr salary.

It's fun, but SaaS is going to shift to more feature rich and we're going to see a ton of smaller projects that were pains to get started that can now work in a short amount of time.

Companies are going to get a huge surge of random internal projects and have to debate whether all the upkeep is valid for the pet projects, or if it's people fucking around at an untold scale.