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As a non programmer but advanced Excel user I've been able to build an entire alternative program with all the things I ever wanted Excel to do better. It's fantastic

be careful if you ever do that again. it's an ill omen to drink an unblemished ram's blood unless you confirm he is also circumcised

another one i've wanted to build for a while is a compute environment based on hot reloaded wasm modules with fully qualified namespacing/content-addressing so you can have N branches of any given function or module within the binary and do things like parallel evaluation and shadowing

build seems to be an area ripe for total disruption in this space. imagine a Bazel-like where all components are distributed, mesh-based global caching, worktree oriented, agentic integration - that would've been an intimidating years long buildout. now it seems approachable for a small team

Also anecdotal, but I have been seeing that some companies evolve internal systems for better support of automation with human in the loop processes. This does show up in earnings reports when especially promising-looking, so not exactly secret.

I'd bet #3 is far and away the most common overall, but I supposed your software niche would determine what you see. I work in no-code automation so most of what I see is...you guessed it...no-code automation ("No-code is dead!" they all declare).

I feel that one, projects that would have needed a small team, I can approach myself, as long as I actually truly understand what I am trying to build, which is much harder than most people assume.

Yeah and third parties have a lower tolerance for reading error messages than I do, so putting out something even when I find it useful makes those people *my* problem

Matches what I'm seeing. The common thread with the solo builder wave is they're using AI as a force multiplier for taste, not offloading judgment to it. That's the opposite of the AI building AI harness pattern that never ships anything real.