The best kind of programming is not when you get a lot done, but when you painstakingly spend extra time to arrive at something so simple and elegant that it ironically looks effortless and not worthy of any special regard.
Opus just wrote me a script without using any of my coding, docs, and review procedures. I asked why, it said "I treated them as optional, even though it says _always_". This is in Claude Code. I don't think it ever did that in Pi via API. 🤔
Just loaded up my "dot" with a bunch of chores that I never got to tackle before. Let's see how it goes. The cool thing about a managed product is that I don't have to think about software updates and memory management.
Technical barriers are lowering now, so app-only businesses are losing value prop. However, there are still physical world, red tape, legal, regulatory barriers. If your business reaches into that, it is more likely to remain standing.