--- title: What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg | daily.dev description: Theo Browne (t3dotgg) delivers a conference talk arguing that AI models have fundamentally shifted what individual developers can build. He traces the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-do-we-build-now-theo-browne-t3dotgg-l6tn4bjgx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg | daily.dev og:description: Theo Browne (t3dotgg) delivers a conference talk arguing that AI models have fundamentally shifted what individual developers can build. He traces the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-do-we-build-now-theo-browne-t3dotgg-l6tn4bjgx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l6tn4BJgX.png og:image:alt: What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg 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. # What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 16 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Theo Browne (t3dotgg) delivers a conference talk arguing that AI models have fundamentally shifted what individual developers can build. He traces the evolution from Claude Sonnet 3.5 through Opus 4.5 to newer models, framing each as a new era: reliable tool calls, long-running tasks, and now autonomous orchestration. His core thesis is that developers need to abandon their 'skeuomorphic' attachment to old workflows, languages, and tools, and instead think much bigger. He illustrates this with a tier model where what was once a startup-scale project is now a side project, and what was once 'too big' is now achievable. He argues that AI enables individual developers to build across a wider product surface area than ever before, potentially competing with established platforms like Slack, AWS, or Salesforce. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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