[swatcoder]

> 6 months of fiddling with a couple of different AIs in his spare time

Six months of fiddling and $X00 in subscription/token fees to make a DIY inventory management app that's going to need regular attention and revision, with ongoing service fees, to accommodate not-quite-right implementations and hidden technical debt.

That's a toy for wealthy hobbyists, not a revolution.

The industry needs to deliver on a lot more than that to justify the investments that have been made.

[rescbr]

No need to be wealthy. Last December I paid $180 for an year of Z.ai's coding plan. It's enough for hobby use.

[consumer451]

> That's a toy for wealthy hobbyists, not a revolution.

Isn't this exactly how many technologies get started?

A PC used to cost as much as a very nice used car, and had few practical uses cases, as one example.

[Gud]

I have developed multiple such applications myself. Essentially a wrapper around SQLite in pick your favourite language, that you then use to extract and combine different data.

[kjkjadksj]

I know right and after 6 months it is an app managing a database with some ocr functionality. 6 months for that? I get the wine guy couldn’t do this beforehand, but in the “old days” of say 6 years ago this is the sort of thing you might build after a 60 minute tutorial…