Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, shares deployment metrics showing the adoption of AI code generation platforms like Bolt.new and Cognition's Devin on Netlify's infrastructure.
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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…”
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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, …”
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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…”