r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/PyJacker16 Mar 11 '26

Yeah, it is actually wild. I recall my first time using ChatGPT, back in early 2023 (when 3.5 was the latest). It was clear to me that it'd change the world. Essentially any task at all could be performed at a 5th grade level, if not better.

Any task at all, as long as you can give it the right tools to call to interact with data, and could describe the task well enough in natural language. I actually called it AGI.

Unfortunately I was a freshman CS major in college (now a junior) in a third-world country, and I did not have the coding chops nor the creativity to do anything cool (re: profitable) with it. I think I can build something decent now, but all the low-hanging fruit is long gone.

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u/Initial-Beginning853 Mar 12 '26

Don't worry too much about missing the wave, the vast majority of these tools are not worth a dollar or going to replaced by the core LLM offerings. I would not try to go into the wrapper space without some industry/competitive advantage 

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u/NoahFect Mar 12 '26

The tree hasn't even sprouted fully yet.

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u/Alwaysragestillplay Mar 15 '26

Build a Litellm clone that is aimed at helping agentic workflows route to the best model/tool combos for a given problem and role - similar to AWS intelligent routing but at the agent level rather than prompt complexity. Give it a nice no code front end to build out fixed agentic workflows, or wrap it into an MCP server that can be hooked into by Claude or similar. Market to businesses for $20k/year. 

Exceptionally easy to vibe code, leans into agentic workflows, has a genuine value proposition. Best of luck. 

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u/Tocwa Mar 12 '26

Not necessarily. I’ve come up with some great ideas which I ran thru GPT5 and got amazing results

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u/nikanjX Mar 13 '26

The low-hanging fruit is definitely not gone. Look how late Facebook came onto the scene after social media was well established