>> I have a bunch of little utilities like that that work the way I want to work - a pomodoro timer, a task management app, a password manager. Right now, it's mostly tech people who are doing stuff like this, but I don't actually think these hyper personal apps require all that much technical skill to make, especially when they just run locally, so I could imagine a world where all sorts of people make things for themselves using prompts.

I'm baffled at the utter stupidity of people making such extrapolations. Sure, everyone and their cat will start to vibe code themselves pomodoro timers and task managers. The hobos living under bridges are in desperate need of pomodoro timers and custom vibe coded apps to manage their tasks.

Pomodoro timers and task managers are sure worth a trillion quadrillion dollars because everyone needs, wants, and will AI-vibecode them.

I can be more precise if you don't want to rely on context clues and want to take a pedantically literal interpretation of "all sorts of people". The people who currently pay money for these kinds of apps have pretty good odds of just making their own in the future provided AI agents stick around and are comparably priced to now. It's already the case where about 30 minutes of effort and maybe an hour of waiting will get you something that likely matches your workflow better than a paid option, and if it's being created by an under-utilized AI subscription, the cost is essentially free.