Hyper-Customized One-Off Software for Cheap

I discussed previously that AI projects have a short lifespan, on average. This one is a related hypothesis, which I believe we are starting to see in the AI-adjacent software engineering domain already, and which might spill into other domains soon: Hypothesis: With the changing economics of software creation, we will see more software which is produced on demand by its own users, with the help of AI models that are sufficiently good at building the required code based on a human prompt. This software will be cheap, but most of all, it will have the advantage of being hyper-specialized to ther user’s needs, bringing down the integration cost. The old world Traditionally, we view successful software projects as a thing that few people build and many people use (1:N). It looks like this: author(s) (few) build software use users (many) building cost (high) adoption cost (high?) purchase cost (depends) Authors pay for the design and implementation of the software, and sometimes for…