It’s clear to me that the product velocity of things like Cursor, Claude Code and Codex is much higher than I’ve seen for basically any other product. This is what I meant by saying most of the software I’ve seen has been for software developers themselves.
We are now starting to see this trickle out. Internally at Lightcone more of my staff can now build software solutions to problems where they previously needed support from a software engineer (a random example of this is building Airtable automations with script blocks). My guess is if you surveyed Hacker News you would also see that more things on there are small applications that someone built that previously would have taken prohibitively long to build. This is a random example of one such project: https://www.ismypubfucked.com/
It’s clear to me that the product velocity of things like Cursor, Claude Code and Codex is much higher than I’ve seen for basically any other product. This is what I meant by saying most of the software I’ve seen has been for software developers themselves.
We are now starting to see this trickle out. Internally at Lightcone more of my staff can now build software solutions to problems where they previously needed support from a software engineer (a random example of this is building Airtable automations with script blocks). My guess is if you surveyed Hacker News you would also see that more things on there are small applications that someone built that previously would have taken prohibitively long to build. This is a random example of one such project: https://www.ismypubfucked.com/