Tools that reduce the barrier to entry to creating things make it easier to solve problems with less scale to pay for the overhead. Generative AI is among these tools, but so are low code platforms, so is React, so is AWS, heck, so is the power grid. But in recent times generative AI is a big leap forward.

We’re at the start of another cycle of a lot of niche products followed by the rise of big Acme megacorps who conquer them all economies of scale that compete on margin. It comes just as we’re at the tail end of this cycle with tech as we knew it for the last 50 or so years.