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Claude Code for Infrastructure
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Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#172All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.
One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…
What a beautiful microcosm of the attention economy.
Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#173The reason: > Safety. I didn't want CC to SSH into a prod machine The call to action: > curl -fsSL https://fluid.sh/install.sh | bash The reason this is ironic: https://x.com/sheeki03/status/2018382483465867444
One just needs to put enough poison on the internet to get the malicious URL suggested by LLMs. What a time to be alive!
Honestly, I may be an accelerationist in terms of poisoning the LLM well if it gets us sooner to an industry-wide consensus that LLM output is a significant security risk.
Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#174All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.
One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…
Yes I remember those days! I joined a startup whose first product was a Facebook app in 2007. We were right around the corner from Facebook HQ on Forest and High, and we were alpha partners for the launch of Pages. We created a feature film streaming app (the learning was: no one watches 100-minute videos on Facebook). While we never intended to be a Facebook-app company, technically it was the first thing we launched.
Fast forward 18 years, and the company is going strong with millions of subscribers and distributing Oscar winning films such as Demi Moore’s The Substance.
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#176All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.
One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…
To be quite honest, in many ways AI itself feels a bit "scammy" sometimes. The biggest case for it seems to be how to shit one million garbage apps by snapping your fingers, while problems that are really hard to solve go unaffected.
Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#177All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.
One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…
That sounds pretty fishy, but in my head, that's what an economy is. There aren't a lot of new inputs into the system. It's just a circulatory system of value moving around. The only new inputs would be things like mines, oil wells, and other outside forces. Labor is too I guess but I think it's less raw.
Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#178> curl -fsSL https://fluid.sh/install.sh | bash what could go wrong..
its missing sudo
Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is my experience that most of these business domain experts snore the moment you talk about anything related to the difficulties of creating software.
Until a few months ago, domain experts who ciuldn't code would "make do" with some sort of Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell (MESFH), an unholy beast that would usually start small and then always grow up to become a shadow ERP (at best) or even the actual ERP (at worst). The best part, of course, is that this mostly works, most of the time, for most busineses. Now, the same domain experts -who still cannot code-…
We have monthly presentations at my job and the business folk are really leaning into AI. The biggest win so far are them being able to generate new user experiences and get them into figma by themselves. They're able to test a design, get it into figma, generate some code, and get it in front of users without a developer or designer at all. It's not perfect but the tests show what we need to focus on vs what falls flat when put in front of users. It's very impressive and I'm proud of them.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.
This is interesting. Do you know of any examples of successful tech companies built by non-technical founders?
Your question kind of answers itself with the filter of "tech companies". If you asked broadly about successful companies, the answer would be more apparent.
But an answer to your question would be Capital One.