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Software is now rapidly becoming a machine generated commodity.
Could I turn this revolution to my advantage?
Spoiler alert: very realistic!
Claude and Bolt
Early last year we wrote about theimpact of AI on the app market.
It was clear even back then that things were changing fast.
Two factors really cracked the market open for Joe Public programming.
I wasted no time, and jumped onto the bandwagon with glee.
As well as Bolt, I tested out numerous products which entered the market over this period.
This includes products like Tempo, Pythagora, Marblism, Github Spark and WindSurf.
The result is Ive created more than 15 different software applications over the past few months.
If you have some programming experience, you might definitely build quite elaborate applications with shopping baskets and suchlike.
It will save you grief, and money too.
One of the things I like most about Bolt is the one click deploy to Netlify.com.
Your app is instantly available to the world.
Claude is boss
Theres still just one, expensive, model maestro.
Claude remains the absolute emperor of coding.
But at the end of the day I can almost guarantee youll return to Claude to do anything serious.
And I say that knowing that Sonnet is not cheap.
Experiment with the tools, note where they struggle and shine, and remember to stash your work often.
I use a combination of Bolt.new andBolt.diy(which is the current open source version of Bolt).
I can test out my ideas with the DIY version using free and ultra cheap models.
Then when Im happy I can move on to the commercial Bolt.new coder with Sonnet as the engine.
Finally its worth saying that were still very much at the foothills of this tech.
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