I’ve been looking for a way to articulate this shift, and your analogy nails it.
The value of libraries and infrastructure components in software engineering is eroding fast.
I am sure that in many organizations, teams responsible for this sort of work have less and less users coming to them.
Maybe for developer tooling, but on the consumer app side I think it's the opposite: MusicKit is much more valuable than Music.app now, because Claude can one-shot most reasonable things you could ask it to do. I think there's actually more value in ambitious libraries than there was 5 years ago, when any serious use of a library entailed a minimum 5-figure investment of time.
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