What a wonderful usage of resources.

It's wild that building bespoke software that fits your needs instead of relying on a one-size-fits-all approach that you're constantly battling against is frowned upon.

I have to ask myself what business you could possibly be in where you look at the software landscape and think "Yea, this aligns perfectly with my needs".

Build your own software if that suits you, all I'm saying is maybe do a quick research for what exists in your space before spending all these tokens.

Right, but Postman would have been a valid choice all the way up until it wasn't. The cost of building your own used to vastly outweigh the cost of having to possibly move to another app, pay for licensing when that changes, etc. But that's changing (especially for something like a GUI to make http requests which feels pretty mechanical for basic use cases).

Tangentially related, one belief I've had since the beginning is that LLMs will result in the decrease in large consulting/software factory companies (good riddance) and one-size-fits-all solutions in favor of solutions tailored to a business's actual needs. I work in a slice of healthcare. There are a handful of big EMRs and they were all built 20 years ago in an industry that changes and so many providers end up having to retrofit their businesses around whatever quirks/workflows the software has. And it's usually one of a few flavors: overly restrictive, too configurable, or worst of all: not restrictive at all. None of those are ideal. But now that the economics are changing, hiring a software dev or 2 at your small/medium-sized company becomes a lot more appalling. And it means they actually get business experience. Which means better software all around. I believe the days of shuffling changing requirements through 4 layers of PM's and BAs and sprint leads only to end up with a solution that looks like it was built playing the telephone game are waning.

Maybe this is what and how it always should have been. My life is better now that an LLM proxies my human sound waves and finger clacks to bits that do what I say - and precisely what I say nothing else

Magnificent. One step closer to self sufficient community ships drifting through the system, meeting up with other ships once a month or less.

This to me is what I always envisioned the end-goal was with OpenAI/Anthropic/etc.