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The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
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Re: The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
#92I couldn’t disagree with this more. And at least anecdotally I’ve seen the opposite. I have one friend who has built and launched an app for diagnosing skin disease from a photo. Do I think it’s a good idea? No, but he built it. I have another friend that has completely automated her job in accounts receivable. She literally doesn’t have to work anymore and her employer has no clue. And another friend of mine is cran…
Those aren't SaaS apps, that's (respectively) unlicensed practice, fraud, and a new hobby.
I’m not sure I agree with you about the second case being fraud, but I agree with you on the other two. Just curious, why do you call it fraud?
Re: The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
#93100%. Saas isn’t going away, but the economics are changing drastically and that’s bad for one-size-fits-all tools, and excellent for niche solutions. But it’s still saas, just more specific.
Businesses don’t want to use dozens of hyper-specific tools from dozens of vendors, if they instead can use a single vendor that can already do 80% of it and can vibe-code them the remaining 20%. I don’t see how this favors niche vendors.
I don’t mean specific features, I mean specific verticals. I.e. one app that nails a specific type of business and replaces a dozen disconnected tools.
Re: The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the idea is you'd basically have it take a look at your current system, it would learn what features you're actually using at all, it'd check company emails for past and current pain points or stuff you wish was possible or just simpler, it'd Slack everyone in the company asking what their biggest wish and biggest pet peeves are currently, it'd do a small interview with Joe himself presenting the above to see…
It's science fiction, because when you have this capabilities you don't need any payroll system, you just let the AI do the job Joe was doing. The system you are describing is far more intelligent than Joe, there's no point to use it to solve a operational problem, just point it to the problem Joe is solving. Or even better to the problem that create the need for Joe role. Your scenario will never exist.
doesn't matter if it's just some agent using the system in the end, you do understand you still need an actual system for consistency etc, right?
Just that instead of cirrent "making something possible" it'll mainly be for restricting what's possible, hence forming a stable format.
That will never ever stop being a thing, even if the inputs and possibly outputs are entirely rock n roll it still requires coercion into something suitable for storage and processing.
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The default has been pay $x/month for every service. I've seen startups that require a dozen service accounts just to run the software, and dozens more to get onboarded org wide. One service for feature flags. One service for logs. One service for traces. One service for error handling. Another service for ticket tracking, which is completely separate from your planning, design, and CI services. Jesus. What do people…
This fundamentally misunderstands a couple of things. DIY software is "free" like a free yacht is free. It initially looks appealing but there's a lot of expensive hidden costs and upkeep and pitfalls and problems. For one, this is a bad assumption: > building something that fits your actual needs Unless your business is very small and not growing, this is a moving target. Your needs are going to change as you grow a…
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You're most certainly wrong on this one. Superior models give superior products and security over time. Until every 3-6 months stops bringing a large improvement in coding capability and scaffolding, there's no reason to assume we are nearing a hard limit. You also have to factor in that bespoke software is... bespoke. ie. much more suited to your org's use-cases than the primary solution is. Way less bloat. Way less…
This is like saying I know how to do plumbing so now I’m going to do all my own plumbing. Yet I will still pay for a plumber. I wonder why.
Not the same at all lol. One would require robotics to solve. This is an asinine comparison
Re: The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're most certainly wrong on this one. Superior models give superior products and security over time. Until every 3-6 months stops bringing a large improvement in coding capability and scaffolding, there's no reason to assume we are nearing a hard limit. You also have to factor in that bespoke software is... bespoke. ie. much more suited to your org's use-cases than the primary solution is. Way less bloat. Way less…
>Until every 3-6 months stops bringing a large improvement in coding capability and scaffolding, there's no reason to assume we are nearing a hard limit. How much of that is better models, and how much is it AI companies throwing more resources at each one? E.g. larger context windows and higher token/s correlate with the better models.
Its a combination. Context windows have slowly increased, but intelligence and reliability has been a nonstop trend