Internal micro systems purpose made for you, that don’t need to scale or have beautiful code. They should work and overtime the efficiency due to them compound.
I can share an interesting experience from last week. We have a person who is incharge of buying hardware, software and data sets. This might sound stupid but when you are buying 100s of servers, workstations and laptops a month, it's complicated. This dude used Claude to create an entire tracking and maintanence portal that inventoried everything. He even managed to integrate the portal with our monitoring software to display the status of every server vm. He then modified it to store invoices and so on. He's been at it for a couple of weeks and we've been able to identify wastage and needs.
Without Claude, this would have been a maze of spreadsheets and a lot of manual labor. But we wouldn't have hired a developer for this. To me, this kind of software is the killer use case for AI. Enough to simplify your life, but not enough to justify hiring someone or buying a product.
Is the code great? Is it scalable? Is it good software engineering? No, no and no. But that's besides the point.
I don’t understand the urge about hopping on twitter and crying about your competition getting funded? weird display of sportsmanship
Just outcompete them.
Socialism and political figures like Mamdani, AOC, Bernie, etc are simply a natural consequence of K shaped economy throwing regular people under the bus.