I'm a solo business owner who knows enough JS/TS/HTML/CSS to get by -- my product is a website full of information -- but I've never been 'a developer'.

ChatGPT et. al. is a miraculous boost to my productivity. This morning I needed a function to iterate over some JSON and do stuff with it. Fairly mundane, and I could have written it myself.

Doing so would have been boring, routine, and would have taken me at least an hour. I asked ChatGPT 4o and I got exactly what I wanted in 30 seconds.

I can only hope that these tools enable more people like me to build more cool things. That's how it's affected me: I never would have hired another dev. No job is lost. I'm just exponentially better at mine.