I bought a Tesla Model X in 2023 and kept staring at the 17-inch display sitting idle while I worked on my 14-inch MacBook. I often drive to a quiet spot and work from the car, so I wanted to use that screen as a second monitor.Nothing existed to do this, so I tried building it myself. It took over a year of failed attempts:- Hardware mod: didn't want to void the warranty - Zoom screen share:...
But I think this will naturally correct itself once companies start tracking AI costs seriously. If AI tools become standard in the workplace, the new performance metric could become something like "how few tokens did you consume to get this done?"
Once people start thinking in terms of token cost, rebuilding existing products from scratch every time starts looking pretty wasteful. At some point the token bill for repeatedly reinventing the wheel just exceeds the price of buying the proven product.
Think about ordering pizza. Instead of opening DoorDash, browsing restaurants, customizing your order, and checking out, you could just say "Hey AI, order me a pepperoni pizza." Done. When you think about it that way, why would anyone need DoorDash anymore?For simple stuff like this, yeah, AI replacing apps feels inevitable. But I've been thinking about the harder cases, and I'm not so sure.##...