I had been thinking of buying an $80 license for a piece of software but ended up knocking off a version in Claude Code over a weekend.
It is not even close to something commercial grade that I could sell as a competitor but it is good enough for me to not spend $80 on the license. The huge upside is that I can customize the software in any way I like. I don't care that it isn't maintainable either. Making a new version in ChagGPT5 is going to be my first project.
Just like a few hours ago I was thinking how I would like to customize the fitness/calorie tracking app I use. There are so many features I like that would be tightly coupled to my own situation and not a mass market product.
This to me seems obvious of what the future of software looks like for everything but mission critical software.