Kev and Amit both talk about building software for themselves rather than for others. Solving their personal needs and making something that is exactly what they want.

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I love this, software should be personal and customized to the user. Building your own software brings out the “personal” in personal computing, and it’s how home computing started in the first place!

In the days of the Commodore 64 or Atari 800, you were encouraged to write personal software. You turn on the Commodore and it gives you a blank canvas, ready for whatever BASIC program you can think of. If you built something you were especially proud of, you’d mail in the source code to “Compute!” or a similar publication to share with the world.

The timing to bring back personal computing has never been better. In the age of subscriptions and enshittification, it’s never been easier to choose a different path. LLMs make building your own solutions more accessible. There’s nothing quite like building for yourself and iteratively improving it while you use it in your day-to-day.