I don’t quite follow. If you bring software worth into question, as you pointed out everyone’s vibe coding each of your examples so their individual worth has dropped significantly (with the unknown stability of support and long term plans).
My thought was LLMs accelerate the best and worst of development, but what couldn’t be done (outside of a large lab or company) by regular humans with an infinite time scale?
I.e. 8. A personal example: I'm remaking the engine of an old game commercial game in rust.
You don’t need an LLM for that, just some dedicated time for it. Also your phrasing needs a lot of work. I recommend the Dale Carnegie books on communicating with others.
We are talking about practicality here. Not impossibility. "Just some dedicated time for it" essentially means man years of focused effort.
I think maybe 1 or 2 of those would take more than 1 year for an mvp. I will agree with you that with LLMs it’s infinitely easier and quicker to get a low quality mvp.
1. A person building alternatives to photoshop single handedly: https://gizmodo.com/someone-vibe-coded-a-free-knockoff-of-ad...
2. The abundance of game decomps and recomps becoming available. Literally dozens of example in this space.
3. Reverse engineering of obscure software. A ton of oppertunities lie here.
4. As this posts indicate, severely accelerating existing software by re-writing it in language that are not terrible for performance.
5. Analyzing large volumes of unstructured information.
6. Creating one-off engineering and scientific tools.
7. Beating essentially all traditional Linux distribution, see Omarchy.
8. A personal example: I'm remaking the engine of an old game commercial game in rust.
I'm honestly a bit taken aback that this question is even asked. The volume of software is exploding and the power of the individual has increased a hundredfold.