Im sure I saved a few thousands of dollars when one of my 3 solar inverters failed, chatgpt read through the documentation, my power configuration and pointed out that i could safely reroute the connections from the failed inverter to one of the two inverters. Seeing they are high voltage lines, I opted to work with the original installers, who were reluctant to do so, and was pushing to just get a brand new model, after a few back and forth with chatgpt providing the exact documentation that it was safe and within the limits of each inverter, they agreed to do so, for a few hundred bucks. (which only took less than an hour)

This is definitely something I have been mulling as I 'made' several software projects that I have been tossing around in my head over my lifetime via vibe-coding recently that would have taken me 10x to 100x the time to a MVP, with AI, i can push it way beyond the MVP and enchance and enrich with features I may not have considered without the almost immediate MVP production.

What is the end-product value? I definitely have found value for myself since its things that I considered for a while for myself. Others may appreciate the end product. But is the value of the end product the 'original idea'? or the comprehensive prompt to produce it again? the number of tokens it burned to produce the end product? The number hours it took me to work on it to get the end product? (debugging, enchancing, user interface, design)?

Answers I dont have, but questions I have been mulling while immensely enjoying being able to produce random ideas I have had in me head for decades fairly quickly.