The age of small personalized software is here

Last Update: 2026-03-06

It started for everyone with the introduction of ChatGPT, this new wave of LLMs and other AI models. The generation of text, incrementally even better generation of text with other capabilities allows writing software big and small, allowing developers to move faster and everyday people to write small programs.

The past software development cycles have show us that with every introduction of new technologies that make software development easier, more software is written. We had the introduction of textual assembler, Basic, programming languages, easier ways to edit code and open source.

The introduction of AI coding agents made code cheaper—a lot cheaper. This means competing with basic features and feature count is not actually that productive. Large software projects have to survive for a long time and must compete on quality.

Fast, well working software that captures the user's intent correctly is a joy to witness. We can take the same amount of time to implement features, but use our newly acquired time to improve quality and longevity, while maybe being a bit faster still. And those items in your backlog? Maybe you can fix them now.

Our users can also use AI. Auto translation, more intelligent automations, speech, image recognition and even writing one-off extensions inside of software products. Let them experience what we are experiencing right now.

We as software developers have to focus on delivering robust and joyful software that has good guardrails and allows our users to focus on the hard and human stuff.