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This is starting to encroach on Lovable, right? I do suspect the effect of these "vibe coded" apps on the SaaS market will be smaller than expected. Heavier-featured apps will have all sorts of functionality and polish a user won't even think to ask Claude to build. And the amount of effort to describe everything you need an app to do is higher than it seems.

Instead, I think this is going to open a new paradigm with an immense long-tail of hyper-niche fit-for-purpose business applications. There's so much small-scale work that happens in corporations that isn't common enough to be worth building a product to solve. But it's still a big time-saving to the departments/users if they can improve the process with a vibe-coded app!

Yes and it may open the door for new platforms with pure backend (BaaS) focus. With AI hallucinations, letting AI write backend code is not feasible due to security implications. Access controls still require a control panel which can be easily audited.

The frontend, however, is a completely different story.

It reminds me of a saying from one of my ex-colleagues "Frontend development is like building a house of cards. If it falls, nobody gets hurt. On the other hand, backend development is like building a house out of wine glasses."

AI and frontends are a natural fit, there is way more tolerance for brittleness 'move fast break things' on the frontend as the consequences of bugs are far less severe.