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Saaspocalypse: Real or Hype?

grahac — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:48:28 +0000

Article URL: https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/saaspocalypse-real-or-hype

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459666

Points: 5

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New comment by grahac in "Show HN: LLMadness – March Madness Model Evals"

grahac — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:57:02 +0000

Really fun project. Crazy that opus basically just picked the higher seeds after all of its evaluation

New comment by grahac in "Opus 4.5 vs. GPT 5.2 vs. Gemini 3 Pro for Elixir development"

grahac — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:56:43 +0000

I have found good success with Claude Code/AgentOS. The real question - is Elixir the best language to develop with using AI code generators? It may be?

New comment by grahac in "Vibe engineering"

grahac — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:49:19 +0000

Thank you Simon! Too many people conflate non-engineer vibe coding with engineers using ai to make themselves much more productive. We need different terms!

New comment by grahac in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

grahac — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:56:37 +0000

Look at the AI visibility tools. They all integrate with multiple LLM models, include scheduling, management of multiple external processes, data parsing, site-scraping, graphs, as well as multiple database structures. They need retry and error logic, real-time displays and updates, and multiple flow UX's, and Stripe integration with webhooks, and subscription management.

Same thing with competitor monitoring. These tools require scraping multiple sites, checking X, Facebook, Jobs sites, Crunchbase, etc, aggregating data and displaying and making sense of changes. And the same multi-process management, queuing, and Stripe integrations.

A few years ago, these would both fit into businesses requiring many months of development to get it all running. Now we are seeing dozens of companies emerging in each of these categories each month as they take weeks to build. And if one finds a cool aha (a new integration or graph or UX flow or positioning) the others can quickly follow in a week or less of AI-agent coding.

There are dozens of other categories where this is happening too.

The hard part of figuring out the nuances of the APIs and integrations and retries and AWS integrations and Rabbit MQ configurations and corner cases can all be done by AI with the right context.

New comment by grahac in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

grahac — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:42:06 +0000

I like that this is a meta comment :)

New comment by grahac in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

grahac — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:38:34 +0000

If the software is doing complicated integrations, that may be a barrier as said in the article.

And to be clear, this is people using teams of Claude Code agents (either Sonnet 4.5 or Sonnet 5 and 5.5 in the future). Reliability/scale can be mitigated with a combination of a senior engineer or two, AI Coding tools like the latest Claude Code and the right language and frameworks. (Depending on the scale of course) It no longer takes a team senior and mid-level engineers many months. The barriers even for that have been reduced.

Completely agree that using Lovable, Bolt, etc aren't going to compete except as part of noise, but that's not what this article is saying.

New comment by grahac in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

grahac — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:31:38 +0000

Sorry. This is totally not AI slop. AI-edited for grammar, but human-created.

What industry are you building in? And have you been building in it a while or is it a new startup?

"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore

grahac — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/be-different-doesnt-work-for-building

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492888

Points: 138

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New comment by grahac in "Going Viral with Product-Led "Visual Wow" Moments"

grahac — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:53:09 +0000

Very timely with Google's new Flash image release today.

New comment by grahac in "Why ChatGPT is not getting counted in your site's referrals"

grahac — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:10:51 +0000

I wonder when ChatGPT is going to switch over to links or if they will keep hiding them so you continue to stay on the platform.

Also, when are the links just going to be pay to be linked?

The Great ChatGPT Traffic Miscounting Problem

grahac — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rivalsee.com/blog/chatgpt-traffic-miscounting-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975270

Points: 2

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A prompt to improve SEO for Vibe-coded/AI-coded sites

grahac — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RivalSee/ai-seo-tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749696

Points: 2

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Vibe-Coding's SEO Blind Spot – and a prompt to fix it

grahac — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rivalsee.com/blog/free-prompt-fix-vibe-coding-seo-blind-spot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44739044

Points: 2

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New comment by grahac in "Junior Roles Aren't Going Away"

grahac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:07:17 +0000

Totally fair. Sorry you had to go through that.

Yeah the joke is companies want to hire someone who is already an expert in that role who is curious and a fast learner, without realizing that if someone is already an expert who is curious and a fast learner, they probably want a different role to grow into.

New comment by grahac in "Junior Roles Aren't Going Away"

grahac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:04:21 +0000

LOL. AI is currently like a mid-level average to good engr who can write good code but ocassionally goes off the rails. Any engr on a team with those characteristics would be heavily vetted in reviews. Almost like a smart CS intern.

If AI was amazing senior level engr, it would be a different story.

New comment by grahac in "Junior Roles Aren't Going Away"

grahac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:56:47 +0000

Yeah right now that's certainly true.

But my belief is those companies will soon realize that some of the people who they thought were junior are pretty adept at AI management - more adept than the senior people. And that skill will suddenly be more in demand than how well you can code an optimized sorting algorithm.

Some will get there faster than others of course. But AI is changing things so quickly that it may happen faster than we think, given the state right now.

New comment by grahac in "Junior Roles Aren't Going Away"

grahac — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:52:47 +0000

I agree that AI does not replace the best people in those roles. It can do an average to good job. Maybe it can reach top 40% of the industry? If you need the best UI or best marketing, humans are still netter. Those top human jobs won't go away for a while.

With that in mind, if you just need average to good, AI can do a good job at a tiny fraction of the cost. So the average to good roles will start getting replaced.

As examples, the sites tellmel.ai, and rivalsee.com for example were created without needing a UI or frontend designer. In the past I would have needed to hire a UI employee or consultant to do either of those at a very large expense (especially for the really good ones).

What is everyone in the world doing rn?

grahac — Sun, 18 May 2025 14:22:10 +0000

Article URL: https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021617

Points: 2

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The Present and Future of Vibe Coding for Non Developers

grahac — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-vibe-coding-for-non-developers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987829

Points: 2

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