But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself.
It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?)
I fully realize this is probably me being a curmudgeon, however, I have yet to see someone make an actual, practical use case for it. (I would genuinely like to know one, I just haven't seen it)
Anybody selling templates - dead.
Anybody selling design services to pre-seed startups and small businesses - dead.
Squarespace - probably dead soon too.
Any startup not taking advantage of these tools is stuck in the past. This is the new "going fast". You can test your ideas so quickly with these tools.
As a full stack engineer, I can build and design myself to a pretty reasonable degree. I'm not going to do that anymore. These tools are faster than me.
I definitely agree we all need to learn these tools and use them in our favor, but I'm not sure they'll directly take our jobs as for now.
I remember having the same kind of fear of loosing my job around 10yrs ago when templates and came up, but we just learnt how to include them in our workflows and continued working from there.
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