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> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
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Probably not great for the battery to be running all the time
Yeah exactly, I don't understand the trend of it to be honest. Buying a VPS (even a low end vps like 500mb ram or 1GB could be good) and you can use maki.sh (written in rust) as compared to opencode/claude-code etc. which I have had OOM errors with at low end vps's. You can ssh into your vps's from anywhere and they could really work 24/7 without having to worry about battery or the whole opening mac up while moving…
love his writing style. pure opposite of slop, oozing with humanity
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Wow. Opinions on LLMs aside, the CEO writing an article like that makes me think fly.io is a deeply unserious company.
The CEO didn't write that article. I did. I was going to run it on my personal blog, and he asked me to run it there. Be mad at him for the right reason.
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Let's take Jira for example. Why do people use that instead of one shotting "Build me Jira" into their AI. A story as old as the hills: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Having x y z set up for you and maintained is kinda useful because you can focus on α And no Claude is not AGI so you need to babysit to get that done.
Do you think Jira is going to survive this moment? I don't. I've never met anybody who likes Jira .
However as businesses they sell, they know how to sell and know what they customers need. They need a lot of compliance and IT maturity for sure.
Enterprise (and even SME) customers don't want to fuck around with Claude and use hero shadow IT. They want to buy shit like Jira because it turns out cheaper than DIY even with AI. They know it will be HIPAA and SOC2 and most other things they desire like that.
AI does kill the tail end but Atlassian was always practically free to the kind of person who can replace it with a vibe coded weekend project (try it! sign up for a Jira!).
While you are there, you can go and set up myriad AI workflows, build a forge (plugin) app using AI in studio then set up Rovo AI automations. Yes it is very AI native now.
Some day you can type "make the next Google" into AI and it will do the paperclip thing. Until then... SaaS is not dead. I repeat SaaS is not dead. Not dying. Disrupted yes. Not dead.
Sprites seems like a solid lifestyle business for a few friends, not a startup that has taken funding. As a developer, I use docker/podman. Works great. The new massive market that will open up, where grandma and grandpa are making apps, will be taken up by Lovable (and the like). Non-devs will not be using sprites. You’re capturing some small percentage of existing developers.
In theory I'm in OP's described target market here, b/c I am absolutely terrified of agents wrecking my pooter/home network/life as they 100x my sw dev. Every day a new story comes out about OpenCode, CC whatever being a security nightmare. If it's so easy to containerize these things then why aren't more devs doing it and these stories going away? I for one am actively avoiding the agentic coding switch because I ha…
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Indeed, it's not worth engaging with AI skeptics anymore today, it's just a waste of time. If they don't see the value then they probably never will, and that's not my problem.
This is what I mean about the static equilibrium in 2025. That's what everyone was doing: just writing the other side off. That post of mine did a lot of things, but it did not do that.
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On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
It’s a Buffy the vampire slayer reference and you know it.
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Do you think Jira is going to survive this moment? I don't. I've never met anybody who likes Jira .
I never met anyone who likes Oracle ($331bn mkt cap), SAP (€187bn) or Salesforce ($134bn) either. However as businesses they sell, they know how to sell and know what they customers need. They need a lot of compliance and IT maturity for sure. Enterprise (and even SME) customers don't want to fuck around with Claude and use hero shadow IT. They want to buy shit like Jira because it turns out cheaper than DIY even wit…