The future of building software

Bit of a ramble.

It’s pretty clear to me that building software is commoditised. I literally launched a brand new app with Backend, auth, front end and deployed it in less than a day.

Looking at the new functionalities in OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, they’re taking over more and more usecases by the day .

I feel companies will buy less individual software and manage with a few generic agents. In that case, large agents will pretty much take over 90% of the workflows.

Where does that leave new builders? Thoughts?

--Edit: This thread took different direction, so resetting the context. Here's my belief: - A lot of writing code is already moving to agents - Human engineers will do an architect, testing and PM role to focus on quality of work than doing the job. - I also believe the scope of human interaction will go down further and further with models taking up jobs of testing, evals, UI, product design etc.

The concern I have is that unlike SaaS where specificity drove the business (verticalization) and the market exploded, in AI, I see generic agents taking up more jobs.

This creates value creation at bigger companies. I've been thinking where that leaves the rest of us.

A good way to answer this would be to see how the application layer can be commoditized for millions of companies to emerge.