Wrt entertainment I think we're still pretty far off. You have to do quite a bit of handholding (particularly maintaining coherence across multiple minutes of video) so its mostly the hobbyists that are making stuff right now. Minimax H3 was a big step forward in the open-weight world though with its ability to do ref2vid.

However with agentic coding, I think we're already seeing a pretty big resurgence in owning your own tools.

I've already created bespoke versions of many pieces of software to tweak them exactly to my liking (tabbed text editor, a graphical diff tool, screencaster, etc).

https://mordenstar.com/other/my-tool-shed

I made a workout app that saves me $100/mo. It’s honestly better than what I had before. Although I have one sound bug I / Claude cannot figure out.

I did start working on a gin rummy game to replace an app but the apps free so less motivation (even though it’s probably selling my data).

I have dreams of making a few simple games but time is hard to find.

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