What will be future of bubble?

AI and mobile was part 2 of new year road map, what about part 1 ? About optimization of the infrastructure for faster reliable db operations ?

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Bubble will do fine.

Creating an app with a prompt is great, but if thereā€™s an issue can it fix it? Can you fix it, as you donā€™t know the code that was generated?

Weā€™re entering a new era of programming, where some Developers know to create code for any framework via any LLM, but couldnā€™t troubleshoot to save their lives. AI still canā€™t understand complex apps that work with many different moving parts, and probably wonā€™t for a bit longer and thatā€™s the main job of a Developer, fixing bugs.

Learning the Fundamentalā€™s of programing is key to becoming a good Developer, the more you know about how something works, the easier it is for you to troubleshoot issues or even create new features / apps, regardless if you decided to build it via AI or code it yourself.

Iā€™ve been coding for almost 15 years now, I use LLMā€™s to do mundane tasks and quick fixes, but I know wrong code when I see it, and most AIā€™s love to generate code that would never work and confidently tell me it will.

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People also miss a very obvious fact.

Wordpress made it easy for anyone to build and own a site a long time ago. Yet, companies still pay agencies for its development.

In fact, people still pay a lot of money for traditional development, despite it not being necessary and still being more expensive.

Point being, the total addressable market for something that can build itself is much smaller than you think

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I think you miss an obvious point :smirk:

Only a fraction of all the websites out there are build by agencies. It will probably be close to 1% and 99% is build by mums and dads.

When you talk about software it is the other way around. Still there are mums and dads that can write code but in that space it will probably 90% written by agencies/developers.

The markt for software is growing. More and more is getting digitalized.

In 5 to 10 years, software will be just like Wordpress or wix. You want something automated, you tell it to a Wix/wordpress like system and you get your software.

Most NoCode and even early stage AI builders like Replit will not make it. Most of them are building better tools. Eventually companies will dominate that build better solutions to the real problems at hand.

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My 10 centsā€¦

Bubble will actually emerge stronger once it incorporates more AI capabilities into how we interact with it.

As a true non-technical person (cannot code at all), Iā€™ve looked at these AI builders and whatā€™s very obvious is they are built for for already-technical people. Thereā€™s too much jargon, the viewable code is distracting, thereā€™s too many things to learn which the creators are trying to breeze over, unsuccessfully so.

I doubt AI coders can transform their user experiences overnight. This is unlike Bubble - if their strategy is right, they can adapt their platform to include the best that AI has to offer within 12-24 months.

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I agree most websites are built by mom and pops.

However, what a lot of people donā€™t grasp is that the real magic isnā€™t the website, itā€™s the contentā€¦and that takes skill.

Two websites can be for the same product, one can have almost zero results and the other one can bring in unlimited business. Itā€™s all about the content, how itā€™s presented etc.

Most mom and pops have no idea how to create content that sells out warehousesā€¦

they can sit down and put a website together on Wix or whateverā€¦but we all know most websites are really useless. A lot more could be said about that.

A talented copywriter can still outperform any AI out there. Our agency has a couple of them that can beat any split test with AI.

Also, when it comes to AI for appsā€¦

using AI as a personal assistant will be the future and will negate the need for most apps.

I will be able to get up in the morning and tell my AI assistant: ā€˜Make me an appointment to get the oil changed in my Jaguarā€™

It will schedule an appointment and also keep me updated with reminders etc.

Also, complex apps used for CRM etc. will be handled by AI assistants either for personal use or business use.

Lot more to say on that, but if youā€™ve read some of the opinions coming from the AI world by scientists who have worked on AI youā€™ll get a better understanding of what they predict for the future of AI.

What is harder to predict is what will replace things. Usually the replacements are things that nobody really saw coming. I.E., what will replace websites? Thatā€™s unsure at the moment, but with changing technology, a lot of dynamics are created and reversed.

Being able to pivot and change is always important.

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Learn from bubble academy

I think it might take some years still to see the Ai agents being the ones who use more the Ii werenā€™t than humans

There are some early interesting projects and research going on.

They propose a different way that LLMā€™s can interact with a website or API.
Some people have even go so far to say APIā€™s will stop to exist as they are made for developers and there is other ways to give the AI agents more capabilities.

Iā€™m more hesitant about that, but exciting to see the future!