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Biilmann: Custom internal apps will surpass off-the-shelf SaaS as costs drop
“We'll see the cost of building internal applications and applications in general go to almost zero, right? Like, so there will be tons of those and Lots more internal applications than off-the-shelf SaaS products, right?”
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Biilmann: Small teams will build immersive 3D web experiences within years
“I think now we can see, now I can start seeing how you could build that, right? Like, which I couldn't really like, again, two years ago, it would just be too expensive for a normal company to build anything with like real free assets and stuff like that, righ…”
Insight
Biilmann: AI agents excel at Relay despite high human developer barriers
“Where the developer experience means that it's just, that's never going to happen, right? Like normal teams are never going to adopt it. But it's one of these interesting examples for me of the shift from developer experience to agent experience. It suddenly, …”
Insight
Biilmann: AI-driven ephemeral apps make scale-to-zero serverless databases essential
“Maybe if you had asked me two years ago about serverless databases, right? Like, I would tell you that, like, I don't really think, like, I've looked a lot at it, and I think it's like, kind of like, Scale to zero for a database just doesn't matter that much. …”
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Biilmann: 100 million new AI-assisted developers will emerge within five years
“In five years, if this goes as I think we have, like, another hundred million new developers that are primarily working, like, the deepest of them will go several layers down the stack and we'll know everything behind it, and the shallow stuff then will primar…”
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Biilmann: Agency cut backend developers from 35 to 2 using microservices
“We talked to one agency that's really been a pioneer of adopting this model you talked about of building sites that used to have, like, 55 developers instead, where 35 of those were back-end developers. And now they have around 33 developers, and two of them a…”
Insight
Front-End Developers Are Replacing Monolithic Backend Development via Microservices
“We used to have this very clear distinction between the back-end developers and then front-end developers that worked with the web were barely really developers. They would mostly take some design file and then cut it up and hand it over to a back-end develope…”
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Biilmann: WordPress is a bad idea, and web architecture will shift massively
“28% of all websites are still built with WordPress, and everybody kind of knows it's a bad idea, but it's even still slowly growing, and I think we're about to see a pretty massive sea change where the architecture of that will shift, and that I think will aff…”
Insight
Biilmann: First-wave AI web tools lower entry barriers for traditional apps
“And then at first we use that to essentially build exactly the same That we've built the last 10 years. So we use that to build more of the same kind of web experiences, websites, web apps that we've built in the last 10 years. It just lowers the barrier of en…”
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Biilmann: AI agents are multiplying web development output
“Now we're starting to see agents play a major role in building the web, writing a lot of the code, coming up with this, it's doing all of that, collaborating with humans, but multiplying this factor of what you can build.”
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Biilmann: AX will unlock highly creative, agent-flexible web experiences
“If we can build the right agent experience around the web, that will make it possible again to build really wild and creative experiences, but still allow any person interacting with them that also have agents helping them to interact in whatever way they want…”
Insight
Biilmann: AI eliminates the constraint of purely transactional user interfaces
“All of our user interfaces so far have been truly transactional interfaces, right? Like I click a button, the computer does something transactional and deterministic. That constraint has basically gone away.”
Opinion
Biilmann: Bolt.new set a new standard for prompt-based AI code generation
“Latest, like there's been different ones of them, but by far the most impactful have been Bolt. News that sort of really exploded into the market at the end of last quarter, and we would say set a new standard for how far you can go with like a prompt based ag…”
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Biilmann: Netlify sees 10,000 AI-generated websites created every day
“And by now at Netlify, we're seeing about 10,000 sites a day created from AI code generator.”
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Biilmann: Bricks replaced React hooks with Relay to improve LLM readability
“They moved away from using hooks, for example, because they said like hooks is a great abstraction, but it hides the complexity. And we found that if we use relay in like single page component files, it becomes much easier for the LLM.”
Insight
Biilmann: Agent Experience (AX) must become a formal discipline like UX
“So I mean, I think I'm kind of proposing AX as a discipline in the similar way as DX or UX as a discipline, right? Like once it starts being an intentional focus of yours and you start really observing how the humans and the agent work together with your produ…”
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Biilmann: Headless browsers won't remain web agent standards long-term
“For the web, there are questions of, like, how can we simplify The way agents get, like interact with the web, where right now the state of the art is kind of like a headless browser and taking screenshots and having a multimodal LLM take action and that, righ…”
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Biilmann: Git has become software developers' universal workflow engine
“Git has been such a massive trend that's been adopted by Developers universally, and it's become not just their version control system, but their main workflow engine and their main way of collaboration and communication, even in, in issues around Git and so o…”
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Biilmann: AI's primary predictable impact on web development is acceleration
“And probably the first one that's really easy to predict is just acceleration. We will have more code written faster, more assets, more content.”
Disclosure
Biilmann: Netlify is centering product efforts on Agent Experience (AX)
“I wrote an article about that and have sort of centered a lot of Netlify's efforts around how do we build the best AX.”
