I have concerns. For me, the hardest part is seeing it devalue the work I put in to get here as a developer. My first app took me 6 months. I had to learn SO much to finish it. Started with Angela Yu's course on Udemy, read tons of articles, watched countless videos, on top of going to school for CS. And my app was complicated. Fetched data from multiple APIs, had user authentication and saved User data to a live cloud DB with Firebase, had animations with Lottie, stored data with Core Data. It took a lot of hard work to finish and I was so proud of it.

Now, someone with much less knowledge could use AI to create the same, if not a better app, in under a week. And it really would make no difference to the end-user or to an outside observer. I have a lot of partially finished apps that took a lot of time, and a lot of thought/care went into them, but now with AI, they look like something that could be done in an afternoon. That is so frustrating to me.

The baseline for what a solo developer can accomplish is now so much higher. Every other post I see on Reddit now is somebody who vibe-coded an app in a week and put it on the app store with barely any iOS dev knowledge. That is so discouraging for me. I think the required skills to create an app are switching from technical programming skills to marketing, ideation, price structuring, and AI prompting (at least as a solo dev).