murukesh_s

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Building http://codeflow.co/. mail: murukesh<at>codeflow.co.

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Comment · 16 days ago
Mostly face - at least crows. There were experiments done with people in mask, and when they remove the mask - crows would no longer recognize them
Comment · 1 month ago
>Providing ready-made UI components and templates has never been a million-dollar business, nor should it be.

Neither creating a VSCode wrapper and putting an LLM with tools and valued billion dollars (cursor). But thats the demand and supply.. As long as AI was not there Tailwind would have continued it success journey - until a new tiny(at least initially)/shiny/minimal framework comes along

Comment · 2 months ago
I had built https://codeflow.co long ago - a workflow style integration platform (pre-AI). I could see less interest while showing the product to users in recent years as AI was catching up.

The sales demo that excited users - hey you can drag and drop and build stuff - which was pretty exciting few years ago - was seen as a burden by user (especially if they had to pay/license it) - they started asking why can't AI do it for me?

However n8n and other platforms embraced AI and AI automation was a thing for a while until the coding agents caught up. Now I believe drag and drop builders are not a buzz anymore where Claude has become a verb.

Being a visual person I do see value of debugging code "flowing" visually but not many are/were in the same boat. Since then I have pivoted to https://nexaflow.com - which is more like just tune the prompt and get your AI going instead of wrestling with the flow yourself - but I do feel a gap somewhere between the two spectrums - enterprises who would need high level of customization but wont believe in vibe code may be - but that could be a very tiny niche..

Comment · 3 months ago
If that is the case, isn't that the failure of your testing strategy/setup? If your style doesn't fit full vibe coding - you can do the path of AI generate code - human reviews and tests all edge cases flow - I think in any serious software - that should be the flow until next few iterations. But either way, don't see a going back to coding every line by hand now, those days are gone. Was fun while it lasted!
Comment · 3 months ago
it's the gut bacteria that is left. lol, that hunger, that emotion, that sense of intuition. Without emotions we are just a naturally evolved LLM.
Comment · 3 months ago
I am building https://nexaflow.com - a customer support AI agent with built-in modules so small businesses need not buy 4-5 services to run a business. We ship with CRM, Ticketing, Appointment/Scheduler, Booking management system (for Small clinics, etc). Nexaflow agents can answer (and take action on) customer queries coming from Whatsapp, Email, Web (widget) and more.
Comment · 5 months ago
Hello from assembly programmers to present day javascript folks. Joke aside, I sometimes think how VS Code is written in such layers and layers of code - ~200mb of minified code - Java based IDEs were worser with almost 1GB of code (libs/dependencies). And VS Code did beat native editors (Sublime) of its time to dominate now - may be because of the business model (open & free vs freemium). But it does the job quite well IMO. And it enabled swarms of startups to go to market including billion $ wrappers - including Cursor, Antigravity and almost all UI coding agents. I remember backend developers (Java/C++ type) looking down upon Javascript developers as if we are from an inferior planet or something.

How many of us remember that VSCode is actually a browser wrapped inside a native frame?

Comment · 6 months ago
>Scott Chacon is a co-founder of GitHub

Thought so until saw this. Man, he is the co-founder of Github and already seed-funded. How can someone refuse him? 17M is a small amount considering the valuation VS Code Agent wrappers are getting

Comment · 8 months ago
wish they enable the actual iphone 16 with a full-fledged OS that we can plug into an external monitor.. I think samsung tried it but didn't get mass appeal. Apple could do that IMO - would have even avoided launching neo as students own a device in the form of phone or tab anyway..
Comment · 8 months ago
Try driving without google maps. Its a slippery slope we common folks we are in and there is no coming back - except for few purists..
Comment · 8 months ago
If the management is the one actually paying for the software from their own pocket (founder), the tables turn. There are millions of SME owners who are forced to pay for B2B software just out of necessity and not having resources to build it in-house.

AI could change that for good.

Comment · 9 months ago
What are you implying?. He would have had to hire a good developer at least for a full month salary to build something like this.

And if you are thinking enterprise, it would take 2-3 developers, 2 analysts, 2 testers, 1 lead and 1 manager 2-3 months to push something like this. (Otherwise why would lead banks spent billions and billions for IT development every year? What tangible difference you see in their website/services?)

5000 calculators may look excessive, but in this case it magnifies the AI capabilities in the future - both in terms of quality and quantity.

Comment · 9 months ago
In his defence, Modi's was external degree - i.e remote degree - so no one sees in the class room.
Comment · 9 months ago
Scary is that the LLM might have been trained on the entire open source code ever produced - which is far beyond human comprehension - and with ever growing capability (bigger context window, more training) my gut feeling is that, it would exceed human capability in programming pretty soon. Considering 2025 was the ground breaking year for agents, can't stop imagine what would happen when it iterates in the next couple of years. I think it would evolve to be like Chess playing engines that consistently beat top Chess players in the world!
Comment · 10 months ago
>Most modern backend is building consistent distributed state machines, you need to cover all the edge cases, deal with concurrency, different clients/contracts etc. I would say getting BE right (beyond simple CRUD) is going to be hard for LLM simply because the context is usually wider and hard to compress/isolate.

Seeing the kind of complexity that agents (not standalone llm) are able to navigate - I can only start to believe - just a matter of time it can do all kinds of programming, including state of the art backend programming - even writing a database on its own - good thing with backend is its easily testable and if there is documentation that a developer can read and comprehend - an llm/agent would be able to do that - not very far from today.

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