Before AI, most apps chased the largest possible market, the only scale where the economics worked. AI removed that constraint. Software that took months now takes hours, and what was intractable before will start to show up.
Something only you care about, software built for yourself by yourself.
A script that texts you when your favorite coffee shop drops its prices. A dashboard that tracks your running routes against the weather.
Something is happening to software that happened to life 540 million years ago.
Before the Cambrian Explosion, life was simple. Single cells, some basic multicellular stuff, not much else. Then, in a geologically short window, nearly every major animal body plan that exists today appeared.
The organisms were already there, what changed was the environment. Oxygen rose enough to support complex metabolisms, and predation emerged, creating pressure that drove innovation at a pace the planet had never seen.