"Create a copy of Amazon.com"
ok, how did you want to handle 3pl fulfilment and international red tape?
"No not that complicated, a minimal copy"
How minimal? How many servers should I provision? How vertically integrated should we get?
Etc.
I really want to see someone build an app of any value with minimal decisions made.
You could easily replicate the store part of it minimally, at its core its just an index of products, a basket and checkout system. There are other parts that make up the whole thing of course.
There is a lot of room between no value and trillion dollar company
You can ask it about the code, sure, and it'll try to tell you how it works. But, what if there's a bug in the code? Maybe the LLM will guess at how it was supposed to work, or maybe it'll start making stuff up to justify the bug's existence (it's actually a hidden feature!)
The docs say how the code should work. For an LLM that has to go relearn everything about your code base every time you invoke it, that's vitally important
"Create a copy of xyz. It needs to look and behave similarly. I want these features ... And on top of that ...". Millions decisions not needed. A handful of vague descriptions of what one wants is all it takes today. I think claude and co. can even take in screenshots.
Documentation won't be needed either IMO. Since humans won't write nor read the code. They will simply ask LLM's if they have a question.
I totally am giving up my experience with various paid SaaS this year, which I was paying for last years. Not only am I able to add the features that I was wishing for those tools to have (and would have never made it into the real app because they're niche requests), but am saving money at the same time.
And the above is just whats happening today. Claude Code is younger than 1 year old. Looking forward to come back to this thread in a year and swallow my words... but I'm afraid I won't have to.