--- title: 12 August 2026 | daily.dev description: A speaker discusses how AI has lowered the barrier to building apps, arguing that projects once requiring elite engineers and millions in funding can now be... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/12-august-2026-ity1wzsbl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 12 August 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A speaker discusses how AI has lowered the barrier to building apps, arguing that projects once requiring elite engineers and millions in funding can now be... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/12-august-2026-ity1wzsbl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ITy1WZSBl.png og:image:alt: 12 August 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 12 August 2026 **[notJust.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/notjustdev)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A speaker discusses how AI has lowered the barrier to building apps, arguing that projects once requiring elite engineers and millions in funding can now be built cheaply and quickly. Using mobile gaming as an example, they claim a game that once cost around $5 million to build can now be made for roughly $50,000 or less, though they caution the process isn't as effortless as social media hype suggests. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?](https://daily.dev/posts/has-the-cost-of-building-software-just-dropped-90--hpynzjyr5) · Hacker News · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [Can AI Really Build a Mobile App Without Coding? 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