SaaS companies have run out of ideas. No one truly needs another coding agent. I weep for SaaS's future.
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#12But why, it brings literally nothing to the table
This is the easiest sell of the century, product can discuss and implement changes without ever getting engineering involved. Or at least that's the theory, I think everyone here can think of a number of reasons to have reservations on this front.
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#13But why, it brings literally nothing to the table
They see the entire universe building their own version of Claude Tag and custom internal bots connected to your internal ecosystem, and realizing that they can fight for some enterprise revenue within their own product that everyone else is currently extracting
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#15Coding in slack was not on my bingo card.
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#16At this point I literally have no idea what modern coding is supposed to look like. I still open my editor, type stuff in and run make. All these tools are released daily and they just fly over my caveman head.
I used to be that person, and suddenly I haven’t opened an editor or written a line of code by hand in 6+ months.
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#17Hey Slack, how about making workflows less of a pain in the neck to use? In them there is no ability to have branches rejoin to a common path. Worse, an item isn't found in a list it just throws an exception instead of giving me a null item, which oddly I can test for in an if even though it will never happen?
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#19At this point I literally have no idea what modern coding is supposed to look like. I still open my editor, type stuff in and run make. All these tools are released daily and they just fly over my caveman head.
That’s fine, and you’re doing fine. In fact, in a few years you will probably be far more skilled than most “software engineers”.
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#20SaaS companies have run out of ideas. No one truly needs another coding agent. I weep for SaaS's future.
"I know folk's got their ways of doing things. Live where the low fruit hangs, that's how it is." - Charley Crockett
There's plenty of ideas, they just don't have them [1]. It's kind of hilarious to watch all of these people copy each other out of fear while pretending they're being original.