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I'm not so worried that AI will become so good at coding that I'll be out of a job. It's not clear it's going to happen any time soon, and if it does, the implications for all sorts of jobs are so vast it's a totally different world.

But there's a different concern, that the era of millions apps might be coming to an end, and with it the viability of many of us freelancers and small software companies. Instead we will have a small number of incredibly capable and malleable platforms.

And it doesn't have to get all the way to that endgame for the app I work on to become redundant.

The HN crowd seems to be pretty down on the utility of blockchain, beyond the obvious making money through speculation. So am I, but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

With all the activity, you'd think by now there would be some famous, impressive solutions to real-world problems that could not have been solved "the old way" (i.e. trusting a central body).

NFTs are obviously hugely successful, in some way, but that seems to be largely a variation on the same old speculation game.

I realise there are serious uses of cryptocurrency beyond speculation, such as international money transfer or bypassing unstable fiat currencies, but I am more interested in the revolution in distributed apps and online services that we are supposed to be seeing.

Where is it? Do I just not know where to look?