Do you really think LLMs will only belong to 2 or three companies in the future, when we already have fairly competitive open weights usable from home (or rented servers)? How would this be anything but the opposite of centralization amongst 2 or 3 companies, which is already the case now? Software has always been displacing things, especially itself.

Your second point makes a lot of sense to me too. I’m not sure how this could handle that facet of human nature, except possibly to indirectly contribute to speeding up the cycle of spec creation.

At that point it’s about optimizing and deciding trade offs, both of which might mean heavily directing the generation in some way. Over time, maybe LLMs or whatever succeeds them won’t go down so many bad architectural paths. We’ve certainly seen that already in the last year or two.

I also don’t think folks like you ever lose your value in these efforts, even if all of it came true tomorrow. At worst it would be you plus the AI, which would always be a more potent combination than say, me with an AI trying to make a browser engine.

Edit: replies are making good points about AI capabilities and where the effort really goes. Let’s just say that I meant this in an aspirational sense, rather than where the rubber actually meets the road today.

Perhaps (sarcastically) this is the new approach, because this is now the point where they’re forced to struggle and therefore actually learn. An exam every other day, let them ask the questions.

Your (I’m assuming well intentioned) arguments are those that people abusing power trot out whenever it suits them, because it works so well to get them off the hook when the people they’re abusing are decent human beings. “Now that we’ve tried our best to destroy things, don’t you think it’s important we all forgive and forget?”

I also think you’re taking my point to mean punishing republican voters, which I’m not. I’m talking about upholding and enforcing laws against the politicians and their accomplices in the party, as they’re intended to be. Rather than taking the less confrontational path of letting it all slide after they lose power. That’s how this mess started in the first place.

He literally said “if you vote for me, you won’t need to vote again”. It’s not an ambiguous statement and doesn’t require extra context. Everything else you said didn’t really have anything to do with it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bTm0du4kUH0

Being open to being wrong and course correcting when enough people tell you so is the loosely held part.

If you’re doing that honestly, where they really have that problem and you actually have a good solution, you’d be a jerk not to lightly pitch it at that point.

You could probably do that up to 100 or so customers reasonably easily.

It’s easy to get carried away building every request, especially with early adopters who likely aren’t actually invested yet but may be excited about their own vision for it.

My personal experience is that too much of it leads to the product becoming a sort of shapeless, unwieldy ooze. Or perfect for one customer and few others. Some things can be tough to undo later too, so you might end up supporting them a lot longer than you’d like.

It makes connecting user domains to your app easy and reliable at any scale. Each Approximated user gets the own globally distributed, managed cluster of servers with its own dedicated IPv4 address. Includes (unlimited) edge rule features, DDoS protection, webhooks, and more. Make a simple API call, tell the user to point an A record at the IP, and it’s connected to your app with its own SSL certificates.

Built/building with elixir and phoenix, which has been fantastic.

I would argue that the answer to questions is no. It depends on how you define “smarter”, though. You would likely gain knowledge writing the essay yourself, but is gaining knowledge equivalent to getting smarter?

If so, you could also just read the essay afterwards and gain the same knowledge. Is _that_ smarter? You’ve now reached the same benefit for much less work.

I think fundamentally I at least partially agree with your stance. That we should think carefully before taking a seemingly easier path. Weighing what we gain and lose. Sometimes the juice is, in fact, the squeeze. But it’s far from cut and dry.

I still think it's the best way to live, but the saying "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" really is double edged.

Currently working on:

- Further improving the embeddable DNS widget (to help/automate users updating their DNS records) that launched last month

- Rolling out the new hybrid self hosted version that allows traffic and certs to only go through your servers, while getting the full benefit of the cloud version

- Tinkering with some AI ideas for improving the existing WAF features (tricky, but potentially powerful)

- Making Edge Sequences (pattern matching and rules applied at the edge) more flexible and powerful with more composable options and ways to match requests

Recently hit a milestone of over a million domains served!