I have a family member that produces training courses for salespeople; she's doing fantastic.

This reminds me of some similar startup advice of: don't sell to musicians. They don't have any money, and they're well-versed in scrappy research to fill their needs.

Finally, if you're against AI, you might have missed how good of a learning tool LLMs can be. The ability to ask _any_ question, rather than being stuck-on-video-rails, is huge time-saver.

It sounds like this startup headed for closure anyway, with it's failing revenue, "At the same time, the current revenue projection calls for the end of the business within a few more months."

So, the vibe-coded app is a hail mary by the CEO / investors? If you're already just a few months from closing shop, maybe switching to a vibe-coded up saves you a ton of engineering headcount and gives you a chance? Changes the math on how you price the product?

Maybe slugs were meant for better things than engineering

It's great that you're working on this. If you want to continue on this, I'd consider: - Cleaning up the design of the website-- it looks kind of crappy. Get an AI agent to clean it up for you, it's better to look like "generic professional website" rather than "crappy amateur". - Use the more common words for creating 3d models. A "Visit" sounds like an experience, but what you're really making is a "scene", or a "spatial capture", or a "floor plan". - Maybe try to figure out a niche. Is your niche that people can edit this the 3d object afterwards? Or is the niche integration with video games? You gotta find something that doesn't directly compete with polycam.

If I had to bet on nature vs nurture, I'd place bets on nature. Separated twin studies seem to suggest genes are a strong determiner. And if you've ever met a kid who stubbornly prefers to be introverted or extroverted-- it often has nothing to do with how adults are treating them.

Full stack engineer with 11 years of experience. Would love to join a small team working on a Saas product!

And how about estate sales? Are the out-of-state heirs going to care to who their parent's property is sold? Or are they just going to go for the top dollar?

Eng management needs to convey that this is an Achilles' heel that is important to understand & be able to update.

No engs want to work on perl5? Bribe existing employees, hire someone who wants to work on perl5, or a darker third option.

The product owner can even spin this as them doing a good thing to future-proof the business, even if it means their team loses velocity on other projects.

Other coworkers had interacted with the system a little, but not extensively. It was a bunch of C for (rock & ore) mining software. It was intimidating and it took time, but she cracked it, and then happily (& justifiably) bragged that she added features to code that had been written before she was born!

So the horses that were released (and have thrived!) in north america are originally north american horses. It's part of why they do so well-- they can eat all of the native brush here. Whereas if a cow gets loose in n. america it's gonna poison itself.

https://awionline.org/content/wild-horses-native-north-ameri...

https://returntofreedom.org/new-research-proves-yet-again-th...

You might benchmark it against a couple other database flavors, I suspect most dbs would have issues, although maybe not the same issues as postgres

But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones in learning, gameplay and tasks.

If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming, I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.

(And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to expose people to programming.)

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