Comment by ozozozd
5 months ago
I guess not many people know but app templates for Uber, AirBnb etc. have been around for years now. You don’t even have to prompt. It’s sitting on the shelf, complete.
“Execution is hard” was never about the code part.
Up until 2 years ago I was an engineer/entrepreneur. I could build anything. Other stuff, selling, supporting (execution) was hard.
LLMs made building some of the things I could build faster/easier, others not so much.
Well, the other stuff is still pretty hard. Maybe harder because there is a tonne of spam.
So feel free to share your ideas. Everyone’s gonna think they’re LLM generated anyways.
Couldn't agree more. The opportunity cost of executing something is maintaining it. And that's where the real cost lies.
Big companies won't execute our ideas because they need maintain everything that they execute. Plus, the cost of modifying something that was executed itself is also very high at a big company.
This is how I feel about AI coding in general. I see business users getting excited about building 60% of an application themselves - but have zero clue that the remaining 40% will take 5x as long, and oh, by the way, you now have to maintain it for the next decade - and what happens when you leave and no one can figure out why payroll doesn't work anymore?
Coding has always been the easy bit.