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Maintaining vibe coded software is going to become hours spent with Claude not your users.

That's going to be the difference. It takes nothing to rebuild the software, but listening to users, iterating, handling issues. That's boring.

The ones that win will be the ones that stay the course, not the ones that were built the quickest.

Get it out quickly, market it, iterate it. That hasn't changed. Just the speed of iteration before you go from product to product that sells.

Once you know what sells, then again, it takes far less time to rebuild it well if you need to.

This process works so well in a team that are all pushing together.

Moving the ticket along and a slack to the effect of "this one is quick and easy" Vs "this one's a bit gnarly, happy to jump on it with someone" generally sees PRs reviewed very quickly.

A pleading cat gif is usually enough as a reminder.

A well oiled team is working to deliver customer value (internal or external). I've been lucky enough to have had a few teams of incredibly good engineers over the years. So much gets done.

I can see it not working so well in a team of "individuals" focused on their own performance and "personal responsibility" solely for their bit.

The kind of teams that throw everything over the wall to an individual making a build gate go/no-go decision perhaps.

You hit a point in your life, reflect back on where you'd thought you'd be when you were in your early 20s, and think.. shit.. what I do all of this for?

This isn't even a flippant comment (especially given the subject matter); being at this age and thinking "I imagined it would all be easy by now" does hit home.

I can't. So that would surely be proof of AGI.

Lots of people would have happily taken GPT-4o as good enough for a lot of use cases a year ago and not lived to regret it.

Causing less content to be uploaded, when you are clearly the gorilla in the room, looks to be a wise strategy not a trade off.

This is why SAAS is here to stay. Yes, I can one shot it, but then I've got to maintain it, and I want to get on and play with the next shiny thing!

Doing things for me, awesome, that works. Doing things that have an expectation from a third party, not so fun.

If you build something, sit with your users, listen, build community etc. I don't think that cheapens the final product.

0: https://drink4good.com/can-drinking-too-much-carrot-juice-tu...

So many launches don't show what they are. This on the other hand - got it straight away from the animation.

Great job

You building something else and this scratches an itch?

That aside. I actually love this. Anything that helps with the "wtf did you just do?".

If I can still learn I will. If an agent can't reason about the changes made, then they are not good changes.

Or use it through Vercel [0] with per call zdr.

https://vercel.com/changelog/typesafe-ai-jev-now-available-o...

The model isn't limited to concepts that can be expressed in natural language.

It's only once the AI gets to the output layers that natural language comes back into play.

After all, they're all made out of weights[0].

0: https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights

You price it at what you think works. There is no push back, so you make room to push the price higher.

You were happy to do it at the original price.

A twee handwritten sign for free range eggs at the roadside is likely to do well.

A handwritten sign for flying lessons on the other hand..

Couple that with mass unemployment in an incredibly vast, diverse population of individuals with individual moral boundaries willing to do whatever for money.

And then.. figured that you must be aware because it's been explored constantly in sci-fi for many, many years.

Let's hope for the culture at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_E._Taylor

1080p, but the picture far outstrips most other TVs I've owned to this day.

I have zero plans to change it, and it's usefulness has outlasted the Chromecast that's connected to it.

Yes, I put the first ads on Smart TVs. Apologies.