Programming your own app is not practical. It's not worth the time. It's just easier to have someone else do it. I can probably write my own tax software using an LLM but there's no way I will spend the time to do it. It will probably cost me a few grand in tokens and I can't really know if it's accurate without taking lots of time to QA it. As programmers we've always been selling outcomes. No one accepts partially working code. It has to meet specifications. If a programmer can't do that then he/she loses their job. The programing profession is changing but it won't go away anytime soon.

Who has been selling software for the last... 15, 20 years?

SAAS took over the software industry. Software as a Service. If you work in SAAS you sell a service not software

Which is actually why the software industry sucks now. I'd much rather build products to sell than "services"

Software has always been about selling outcomes. People didn't pay for software because they liked that particular ordering of 1s and 0s.

This.

I predict in 10 years time the domain will be expired, nobody will play (let alone pay) the games on here.

With software alone there is no moat, and I am surprised that "smart" engineers didn't think of this far ahead.

This is basic economics.

OP, you might as well have donated $2,300 directly to Anthropic.

Gotta have a moat.