1. Developers are building these tools/applications because it's far faster and easier for them to build and iterate on something that they can use and provide feedback on directly without putting a marketer, designer, process engineer in the loop.
2. The level of 'finish' required to ship these kinds of tools to devs is lower. If you're shipping an early beta of something like 'Cursor for SEO Managers' the product would need to be much more user friendly. Look at all the hacking people are doing to make MCP servers and get them to work with Cursor. Non-technical folks aren't going to make that work.
So then, once there is a convergence on 'how' to build this kind of stuff for devs. There will be a huge amount of work to go and smooth out the UX and spread equivalents out across other industries. Claude releasing remote MCPs as 'integrations' in their web ui is the first step of this IMO.
When this wave crashes across the broader SaaS/FAANG world I could imagine more demand for devs again, but you're unlikely going to ever see anything like the early 2020s ever again.
1. Developers are building these tools/applications because it's far faster and easier for them to build and iterate on something that they can use and provide feedback on directly without putting a marketer, designer, process engineer in the loop.
2. The level of 'finish' required to ship these kinds of tools to devs is lower. If you're shipping an early beta of something like 'Cursor for SEO Managers' the product would need to be much more user friendly. Look at all the hacking people are doing to make MCP servers and get them to work with Cursor. Non-technical folks aren't going to make that work.
So then, once there is a convergence on 'how' to build this kind of stuff for devs. There will be a huge amount of work to go and smooth out the UX and spread equivalents out across other industries. Claude releasing remote MCPs as 'integrations' in their web ui is the first step of this IMO.
When this wave crashes across the broader SaaS/FAANG world I could imagine more demand for devs again, but you're unlikely going to ever see anything like the early 2020s ever again.