Hear me out: As we on Lemmy all know, there is the enshittification cycle. I’d argue that with LLMs/chatbots we are in the golden era. There is still a lot of VC money propping up unprofitable big tech ai firms, who then provide their LLMs for pretty cheap to get the consumers and advertisers hooked.
In a few years I assume that the prices will go up, maybe even the quality will go down if the ai companies dont find a solution for the ais eating their own shit problem.
So now is the best time to make AI products.
The whole copyright for code from small applications is already pretty over in my opinion.
So now: Lets build a lot of small tools/programms (I am thinking of GUI for ffmpeg, pixelart-editor and so on) with LLMs. In the future we can still improve them, either with or without LLMs.
(I am not really 100% of that opinion, but that thought came to mind and I am not really sure why it wouldnt be a good idea)
Yeah, it’s niche. I think while trying to do anything non niche, I find it already exists. People still do those things for fun or to learn, but I thought about doing something only I can, and combined my CS knowledge with river networks. But the problem is, I made it with a programming user at mind and most people with programming skills don’t do river, and most people in river works don’t like programming. So I only have handful of researchers that might be interested, but if they code, then they already have their own preferred tools