[mattmanser]

Where are these millions, and where is their output? You're in an echo chamber mate, there aren't millions of people using AI to do significant amounts of work.

Indie hackers just did an article on 4 vibe coded Startups and they all seem like a joke.

And they could only find 4!

I didn't look at them all, but the flight sim is spectacularly bad, the revenue numbers obviously unsustainable and it looks like something moderately motivated school children might have made for a school project in a week.

[l33tman]

It's sort of a slow-motion avalanche. For example the price of outsourcing app development is really coming down now because it's one of the areas where the AI coding tools really excel. It's a lot of boiler-plate style code, pretty canonical stuff, no rocket science and, to be frank, not really that much that has to be clever. You can give the tools a screenshot of an UI and it gladly outputs correct styling code for it in seconds. It supercharges already skilled developers. And if you needed 6 in-house app developers before, now you only need 2. It isn't an immediate effect, but it is an effect that is slowly going to run though the business.

The question is, are companies going to use fewer people to do the same, or the same amount of people and just create better products?

For prototyping new ideas this is also an invaluable turbocharge for startups who can't really afford to have hordes of developers trying out alternative solutions.