AI Agents Changed the Equation for Personal Software: Lower Bar, Higher Ceiling

dSebastien · x · 2026-10-14

Developer dSebastien notes that a few years ago, building software just for yourself was hard to justify — but AI agents changed the equation: the bar is lower and the ceiling is higher.

The implication: once you can build almost anything, the real skill becomes deciding what deserves to be built.

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