[casualgaming226]

> However else you feel, AI is a force multiplier, and that can also REALLY benefit "Artisanal work + Small Business"

> Five years ago, to run your own solo business in this space, you had to know most of the following: taxes, legal, backend, frontend, devops, iOS dev, Android dev, and marketing and then pay through the nose for most of the ones you didn't. AI helps to paper over a LOT of those gaps... and you can spend more time doing the shit that matters to your business.

How is running a business in the way you've just described artisanal? You're basically saying we should be outsourcing all of these things to AIs, which is simply not artisanal.

[JohnBooty]

You'll surely understand if you ever take the plunge and run your own business.

You're going to have to spend quite a bit of time and/or money doing things unrelated to the actual product and CX.

Taxes, marketing, etc. The more you can streamline those other bits, the more time and energy you can spend actually improving the thing you are offering.

Again, maybe it's the kind of thing where you need to run a business, or at least talk to a business owner to understand.

[rcxdude]

I would say doing taxes is not at all an artisanal activity, and the fact that we expect artists to deal with it is not a great thing.