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This has never been true.
To believe this, you would have had to miss the number of functioning apps and games on all the app stores that no one cares about, to just give one example. Or all the excellent but abandoned open source projects.
Rewards follow an exponential distribution ("power law ..."). Ideas and execution are important ingredients. Furthermore, they are not easily separable.
That's what I was thinking as well after letting Claude do a godoist clone in a few vibe coding sessions. Literally got most features I care about with a ui similar to todoist with all the bootstraping done. Deploying to my nas later this week and cancelling my subscription. It's way past the point of "just" doing MVPs or simple proof of concepts. I'm talking about user auth, dynamic input parsing, calendar views, ta…
Would you mind sharing the repo?
> This isn’t incremental improvement. This is a phase change. > This isn’t about one person copying one idea. It’s about the fundamental economics of software changing. That "this isn't x, it's y" really is a strong tell
How about “Not-Just Abuse”?
Not-Just Abuse (informal, pejorative)
Definition: The practice of knowingly deploying the “not just X, but Y” construction—typically via a mode-collapsed LLM—to simulate insight, inflate banality into profundity, and efficiently convert reader attention into nothing.
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"As customers connect these nonfunctional requirements with a brand, I don't see how big SaaS players will have a problem." Brand means almost nothing when a competitor can price the software at 90% cheaper. Which is what we are going to see
By that logic, Microsoft’s brand means nothing when OpenOffice is free.
One underestimated productivity booster is that you can write code on your phone by giving orders to a coding assistant in a spare moment. You can fill extra time that way instead of reading social media or playing a game. I was just coding a personal website the other day while waiting for our number to be called at the DMV. I couldn’t really review the code but it did give me a chance to test on mobile. This is wit…
I was just thinking about how harmful that idea is in general. I think true achievement and productivity comes from deep focus and immersion in the problem. Ironically a lot of monotonous work that you were forced to do helped you immerse yourself in the problem domain and equipped you for the hard parts. Not just talking about AI btw, in general when people automate away the easy parts, the hard parts will suddenly…
Also, sometimes you could be a busy beaver implementing a lot of stuff you don't need. (And I'm a hobbyist programmer now (retired) so it's all stuff I don't really need.)
Also, sometimes being in the zone results in tunnel version and taking breaks results in new perspective.
So I think this is an area where "it all depends" is the best summary.
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No moat? In the software industry? My decades of experience suggests that the opposite will happen. People will realize that the software industry is 100% moat and 0% castle. People will build great software that nobody will use while a few companies will continue to dominate with vaporware.
> few companies will continue to dominate with vaporware. that makes no sense. "Dominate" implies people use or buy you software. If you produce nothing ("vaporware") how can you dominate?
They're vaporware in relation to what else is available.
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No moat? In the software industry? My decades of experience suggests that the opposite will happen. People will realize that the software industry is 100% moat and 0% castle. People will build great software that nobody will use while a few companies will continue to dominate with vaporware.
Yes, the moat is disappearing. Go look at any stock index of publicly traded saas companies, they have all been selling off 50% in the last six months. This is going to be a bloodbath
If a superior product launches without marketing, it will not get a single customer; it's incredibly hard to spread through word of mouth these days... With paid advertising, you end up paying Facebook inflated CPC to get bot traffic!
Finally, developers are realizing that it's not how you write code or who writes the code, it's figuring out WHAT to write. LLMs are finally exposing this because the feedback cycle is so short.
this isnt even true though. because if building software is so cheap, you wont be penalized for building the wrong thing. you just move onto the next