There was a nice young man going door-to-door yesterday selling home remodeling and construction services. His company is doing a project in the neighborhood. He is 30 years old, no college degree, spent 9 years at Facebook as a technical program manager. He isn’t a programmer, not a tech guy. He wrote an app using AI for his construction company that ingests photos of a customer’s property, documents the project, documents project progress against schedule and more. Like us, he did it on his own. I asked him if he had evaluated the many construction management apps already out there and he said none of them are as comprehensive as what he put together.
This is a paradigm shift the world has never seen before!
Amazing and frightening at the same time.
There’s lot of applications by companies that are now extremely vulnerable. We’ve taken some automotive software standards, having an open specification, and had AI create us our own implementation - vs. licensing a commercially available one.
I wouldn’t want to be a small software company at this time.
Big companies can’t do that because of the legal ramifications.
If a homegrown application messes up, the company is on the hook, whereas if it’s a third-party vendor they would be on the hook.