Simon Willison’s Weblog

The first generation of AI-powered products (often called “AI Wrapper” apps, because they “just” are wrapped around an LLM API) were quickly brought to market by small teams of engineers, picking off the low-hanging problems. But today, I’m seeing teams of domain experts wading into the field, hiring a programmer or two to handle the implementation, while the experts themselves provide the prompts, data labeling, and evaluations.

For these companies, the coding is commodified but the domain expertise is the differentiator.

— Drew Breunig, The Dynamic Between Domain Experts & Developers Has Shifted