[CPLX]

I’ve been talking about this a lot with founder/coder types in my circle of friends with a wide variety of opinions.

My theory as an old guy is that the standards will just go up.

There’s a current business model where you can make a basic but useful tool that solves a specific business problem and make money. That’s going to end.

We’ve seen this before. A good example would be when the mobile app stores launched and you could get traction with just about anything. And then you couldn’t.

[wiether]

> There’s a current business model where you can make a basic but useful tool that solves a specific business problem and make money. That’s going to end.

I don't know... Because the tool that solves a specific business problem usually requires tons of business expertise. And when company buy this tool, they mainly do it for the expertise diluted in it.

If they didn't already made their own in-house implementation, it's because they don't want to invest in maintaining the tool that requires expertise outside of their actual business.

Meanwhile, the company building the tool can invest in keeping this expertise because it's financed by the multiple companies paying for the tool.

[joquarky]

> the standards will just go up.

This industry is in a deep quality slump. If it takes an existential threat to improve that, then it's all good news

[kilroy123]

That's what I think will happen. Not just standards but taste and design as well. I think there's almost even more demand for good designers now than ever before.

Why? VERY good design signals this is tasteful and quality. Not an AI-slop-vibe-mess.

[thn-gap]

Isn't such design something that is super easy to copy by AI anyways? Spend months working on it, and you'll just get lots of clones the next week.

[kranner]

> Why? VERY good design signals this is tasteful and quality. Not an AI-slop-vibe-mess.

I'm not too sure about this. Very good design, at least in terms of marketing materials such as screenshots, may be end up signalling the use of AI in the coding as well. I know if an app has obviously-AI-generated photos in the screenshots I would be disinclined even to try it.