The Age of Personal Software

One of my favorite things to come out of the generative AI wave is the speed in which I can knock out dumb little ideas I have. Before, when I would feel constrained by time, I'd reach for some off the shelf solution, often software as a service (SaaS) and would wire that up. Because it's so easy to spin up projects now, the SaaS world looks like a garage sale, littered with too many options. These slop as a service options or simply "Slop SaaS" are spun up in a weekend, barely function and have no guarantee of being around in a few months. This makes it even easier for me to think about building rather than buying. I can tell the robots to build me something too. But at least when I do it, I know that the tool will be maintained and stay online. Code being free so to speak means the data is what becomes extremely valuable. Most of what I've been building has a heavy data component. Data isn't something you want to have a so-called AI hallucinate on you. I know first hand, as I run…