I don't see 'grandma' building here own calendar app via Claude Code that reminds her of the family birthdays.
I don't see 'grandma' building here own calendar app via Claude Code that reminds her of the family birthdays.
Uncle Bob on the other hand will stop nagging you to make him those apps you never have the time to make him and will do it himself. He is a handyman, literate and numerate and able to use a computer like most middle age folks outside of tech can. Uncle Bob's mates at the local bar will see the software he wrote and will get into it themselves.
The Gen X+ non-techie population is made up of more than just grandmas.
If you think of apps in the traditional sense I think I agree with you, but I have a feeling things are about to become a lot more messy.
Grandma might not even know she's building her own calendar app.
I don't think we are that far from being able to ask a general purpose AI to "help me not forget my family's birthdays" and it creating and maintaining code for that purpose. Not quite an app, but more than a one off script, I think AIs are going to unlock this weird situation where they're running a bunch of barely organized code almost as an extension of thinking.