> These are marketers, founders, teachers, analysts, and product managers, and they are writing software, which in my book makes them developers.

We've always had people developing, in many forms. Scientists of all kinds, usually with Python, finance people with Excel, etc.

I think that yes, they can go a lot farther now. So this will make the bottom of the software curve grow 10-100x.

Now, the real question for developers is: what does this do to the middle and top or the curve? In my experience that's where maintenance comes in and anyone who's not a trained software developer (and even many SDEs) break their necks. "Casuals" will build what their need, but even with AI guiding them, it's still spaghetti.

It's going to be interesting keeping an eye on this, for sure.

Yes, and to be fair, I'm not saying those people that used to be behind the wheel at the "bloodsucking SaaS companies" are out of luck, or necessarily had bad intentions either.

This is just the natural next step towards a more mature kind of consulting. The client needs help scaling up their project or deploying it to the rest of their business. This is massive opportunity for any entrepreneur since the client is coming much better prepared.