Problem is without LLMs I’m making a contact lead form with some basic stuff and calling it good.

With them, I’m making the whole SaaS. I just made the best DM experience last night. I never would have before. Feels and looks just like iMessage, because the users are coming from that, and it’s just for a small biz. It’s been planned for a while because the messages involve so much file sharing, it was time to build a custom solution, but I had been putting it off because there’s a lot of moving parts.

Doing our own in-house e-signing, email marketing, invoicing too. With just me as the dev. Other options from vendors were too expensive and complicated. Built an invoicing product too, it even writes a pretty good note based on all previous notes for that client.

Almost every business integration - outside a few like payments, hosting, email - become code problems.

If you’re doing it right you should be building more than you ever have before.

And btw random non-devs like car rental hosts and barbers are doing the basic site lead form type stuff for their businesses so without LLMs you’re now doing only beginner stuff. You won’t seem like a real dev anymore. Any random can use that vercel product and it even deploys to a URL. That’s the small biz prosumer case.

The real devs should be doing massive projects a rando can’t do. Or one that displaces an expensive or complicated integration.

Tons of opportunity at every corner.