They did it...

So, I've been working on a project recently that made me rethink how all of software is going to be built. I was setting up a new PC and I needed to read a PDF. And the first thing that I did was try to open it, of course, but Windows doesn't have a good built-in PDF

reader. And so, reluctantly, I had to go to Adobe Acrobat. Now, I know there's a few other alternatives out there, but Acrobat is kind of the standard. So, I went to download it. I installed it and I hated every second of it. It's bloated. It comes with a bunch of features I don't need. It's trying to

push other products. It's even trying to get me to log in. And all the while I'm sitting here and all I'm trying to do is read, maybe edit a PDF. This is really simple stuff. In that moment, rather than suffer with this piece of software, I decided to make my own. And I know

this sounds really basic like okay a PDF reader very basic software but it actually has massive implications that I want to talk about in this video because then I started building other pieces of software that I need and not only that there are other developers out there who are building entire software suites like

somebody literally cloned the entire Adobe suite including Premiere and After Effects. And so I feel like we're getting into this world where consumers are going to be building their own software. And there are a few things that needed to come together all at the same time to make this happen. And over the last month, I am now convinced they

have. Number one, the models had to get good enough. And I'm going to get back to that in a second. Number two, they had to be cheap enough. If you're having to burn tens of millions of tokens to build a piece of software that you can go buy for 10, 20, $30, why would you do