You can scaffold out a simple app pretty easily. Anything large or complex things break down. If you don’t know what you’re doing you end up leaking secrets like the dozens of examples we’ve seen so far.
On one side, it means that a certain amount of business will just use it even if you think its not safe/good enough and they will throw out people and will still succeed.
And on the other side: yes because they will also use LLM review or other tooling and will be fine whatever the 'security llm agent' tells them.
Before gen code killed the freelance business model, there were hoards of people on Upwork/Fiverr willing to fuck other freelancers over and underpay themselves to make whatever barely-working slop you wanted.
Hell, before managers got the idea of AI layoffs, they had been off-shoring to low-quality code sweatshops for years. That was supposed to kill software engineering in the States 20 years ago. And it was just as frustrating (if not moreso) to get them to actually fulfill the project requirements.
There is almost no maintenance work for bespoke apps apart from infrequent updates to keep OS and hardware compatibility as the environment slowly changes.
Keep in mind, these are not products in the endless feature treadmill promoted by scrum.
I don't particularly doubt your experience. But if you have struggled to maintain an app that is effectively complete upon inception, it means that changes in your environment are so common that it's a surprise you get anything at all done.
My wife has 0 knowledge how any of this works.
That was shocking to see.
Progress is not stoping and Fable proves that.