| I’m betting the farm that you are =] Your accountant will be configuring their own work software. Your project manager will be developing their own work software. Custodians will not necessarily be developing work software. Most non-tech desk-staff start to lose focus after the fifth reply on a social media thread… I do not believe they’re going to be able to perform the three required steps for building software solutions: 1. Know what you need (vs want). 2. Know how to ask for it. 3. Have a process for validating it. I also don’t think it gets too much simpler than Docker et al for self-hosting, yet those concepts are genuinely a foreign language to even “tech-savvy” consumers. I think we’re in a bubble, here, and I am personally betting on one niche (of many) where value ($$$$) is still placed upon having another team to outsource responsibility to. Responsibility for keeping an important tool up-to-date, keeping it able to capture data, and most importantly: rigorously tested to ensure it’ll perform calculations correctly. Responsibility for peak tooling, so a busy end-user can stay responsible for their craft without taking a sabbatical to build software is not going anywhere. Whether these “peak tools” will be (validated, packaged, delivered to the user, maintained) by me, or OpenAI/Anthropic instant-agents in 10 years, is what I believe we should be watching. |