The models aren't that good yet, but they hope that they will be one day to do exactly that. To get the models that good, they need people to give them money, which means they need to sell tooling to existing businesses.
I suspect the only reason Meta is investing in models is to keep hold of a moat on other companies creating Meta-like products better than they can.
The other day Elon "joked" about starting a competitor to Amazon because Amazon bans shopping bots - you can bet now that once (if?) Grok or other models are able to build a comparable Amazon, they will be used to do that.
The SaaSpocalypse might be over-played right now, but it won't be forever if the models continue to get better, which will happen if we keep paying them to improve the models.
I suspect the only reason Meta is investing in models is to keep hold of a moat on other companies creating Meta-like products better than they can.
The other day Elon "joked" about starting a competitor to Amazon because Amazon bans shopping bots - you can bet now that once (if?) Grok or other models are able to build a comparable Amazon, they will be used to do that.
The SaaSpocalypse might be over-played right now, but it won't be forever if the models continue to get better, which will happen if we keep paying them to improve the models.
We could break the flywheel, but we won't.