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Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by CartwheelLinux »

0x457 wrote: post #29
CartwheelLinux wrote: post #5

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Haha. You're 100% correct in the AGI/AI thing. I'm just sick and tired of every article being about AI, it's great people but we can't stop innovating and attending to other areas of technology. >You can do a lot with glorified prediction systems that require human prompting >People don't need a machine that wonders the same stuff they do; they need something that does a specific task in lieu of their own effort. Thi…

You're saying it like this is first time AI changes its meaning in marketing. People used to market "smart cycle" in dishwashers as AI.

In the dishwasher's defense it is pretty smart compared to an LLM.

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by debarshri »

mhog_hn wrote: post #17
air7 wrote: post #16

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but who will buy the advertised products? and with what money?

Agents with their agent money - get ready for new legal structures and a bifurcation of the economy: agentic and human. Who knows…

Agentic democracy

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by debarshri »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #22
mhog_hn wrote: post #17

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Agents with their agent money - get ready for new legal structures and a bifurcation of the economy: agentic and human. Who knows…

A separate, self-contained economy. A Disneyland with no children. Moloch.

May be agents will reproduce small models

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by jamest »

achierius wrote: post #28
jamest wrote: post #21

I built an app (HN Clone, of course) with Instant's MCP hooked up to Claude Code. The experience was brilliant. Pros: + Fast + Easy + "Vibe coding on steroids" basically + The sense of 'wow' that comes very rarely with new tech Cons: - It used Instant as the database/backend, but I wasn't sure what it had done / how exactly it worked and had to spend a bunch of time asking Claude + reading the code to get it. It seem…

Would you mind sharing the code, as well as prompts if you're comfortable? I'm trying to sample anecdata to help re-baseline my intuition on these things.

I don't have the prompts, but here you go:

  - https://the-inference.vercel.app
  - https://github.com/jamestamplin/instant-test

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by proxy9 »

Fun software but the only issue with Instant is their pricing. Once they gain adoption, I expect them to significantly raise their rates, I can seen them charging over $1 per GB easily. And like with any vendor lock-in, you’re stuck paying whatever they decide to charge. Observe with caution I'd say

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by lyime »

jamest wrote: post #21

I built an app (HN Clone, of course) with Instant's MCP hooked up to Claude Code. The experience was brilliant. Pros: + Fast + Easy + "Vibe coding on steroids" basically + The sense of 'wow' that comes very rarely with new tech Cons: - It used Instant as the database/backend, but I wasn't sure what it had done / how exactly it worked and had to spend a bunch of time asking Claude + reading the code to get it. It seem…

Have you tried Convex?

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

stopachka wrote: post #25
arscan wrote: post #14

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> Looking at the kind of mistakes Claude made, it seemed like a human could make those mistakes too (very useful feedback for us to improve our API ). This is something we've found for our API -- just having LLMs attempt to use it helps us identify things that we haven't documented well or placed enough emphasis on (for things that are critical but are non-obvious or may be drowned out by other less important informa…

Yes. Fun fact, Instant got the `create` method because of how many times LLMs hallucinated it.

Life imitates art: afar you’re describing there is basically _The Secret_ (I.e. if I wish hard enough for something then eventually it will come true), except it’s LLMs that get wish-fulfilment, not us.

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by mjsweet »

The most frustrating problem I have had with Firebase Studio is Gemini 2.5 attempting to create firebase rules... it was completely unworkable in my experience - just constant permissions errors. I pivoted to Claude Code a few weeks ago with Prisma ORM and NEON db running on Netlify. It's been pretty good so far. I will give InstantDB a go soon I think.

Re: How and where will agents ship software?

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Post by soulofmischief »

proxy9 wrote: post #36

Fun software but the only issue with Instant is their pricing. Once they gain adoption, I expect them to significantly raise their rates, I can seen them charging over $1 per GB easily. And like with any vendor lock-in, you’re stuck paying whatever they decide to charge. Observe with caution I'd say

Vendor lock-in from vibe-coded apps is going to be brutal. It's an all-out turf war.

But hey, rewriting the plethora of vibe-coded long tail* apps might be a major source of employment in the future.

* small but loyal and profitable userbases

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