| Once you have paying customers, you can hire an actual developer. Claude is not 100x for any typical software work, but the biggest gains come from precisely 'non-typical work', which is previously impossible. Imagine a domain expert, who knows a niche super well with all the weird edge cases and untapped demand. Hiring a developer for it doesn't work because. 1. The communication costs are too high, the developer won't know the business niche in depth enough to make a good product. 2. The niche is not profitable enough to risk hiring a developer. Now LLMs allows the solo non-technical founder to make a MVP app, and put it to market to test, for very little cost and risk. Sure the app is not really extendable, may have to be heavily rewritten to expand and maintain, but hiring a developer then, will be a much lower risk task. It doesn't even reduce developer employment this way, as now there's a ton more niche use cases being opened up, and becoming profitable enough to support developers. |