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Comment by zeroq

I think this conflates a few different points.

1. A friend of mine is an artist. She mostly does pottery. One could argue that if you need a cup you can get one at IKEA for $2. But there's a certain group that's willing to pay $200 or $2000 for a cup if that's a convenient conversation starter. They don't pay for the cup per se - they pay for the story she's providing with the cup. And we love good storytellers.

Unfortunately that's not the case when it comes to software development.

2. You can have unlimited resources but you still have limited time, so you have to know what you want. That's the human touch LLMs won't be able to automate. You have to be able to find a niche, work out the product and reach out to clients with clear message.

3. If your product is "Tinder but for horses" it doesn't matter if it was written by LLM or vegans. As long as it works.

4. If you want to gradually develop your product vibe coding will get in your way very fast. It's great for prototyping and developing well defined products but in a long run you'll want to know how your system works.

parent zeroq 15 days ago

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