Thinking about AI

I tend not to be a tech absolutist about most things. I like to play in the tech space and test new tools out to see what they can do, see if they can help me and my work, but if they can't, I move on and avoid them.I want to know what's possible (both bad and good) so I've been playing with AI through Claude for the past couple months in a casual manner, usually spending an hour or two trying things out or leaning on it to fix something for me. So far, I've come up with a few things after this experience:AI is ridiculously good about building single-user, single-purpose software that is fairly brittle (and works just enough), but is also the kind of software with no market because there's only one person on earth that would use/pay for/love it. People are calling this "disposable software" and that's a good description. Most of positive experiences I've had with AI coding are making things only I need for a specific use case.If you're a maker and a DIYer and a jack of all trades,…