If you don't have an army of AI agents coding for you why are you still alive?
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Small coding outfits are spending thousands of dollars on tokens to produce software. I know almost nothing about code, but I know business, and no small business spends that kind of money unless it's working. Emphasis on small. Big corps will blow $2 billion as a favor to their old frat buddy.
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> no small business spends that kind of money unless it's working
I've seen what small businesses will spend money on and what it will not. "I can patch this and make it do what you want but you'll spend most of your time watching a race to see if it will catch fire *before* it gets hacked." "Yeah, yeah, just patch it." [Catches fire, I get complaints, I avoid saying "I fucking told you, you dipshit" and say "I'll be back at my desk in 20" because, although I'm not a salesman, I do know how to avoid fucking up *that* badly.] They will pay more for duct tape than for concrete; this makes sense if they're growing and disposable infra is optimal.
What 99% of them want/need is the little three-page rollout with WordPress: front page, blog, contact form. This is stuff that was already automated without agents. Most little dev shops had a single-button rollout for this and they'd sell it in a $299 package and throw in a free logo "redesign". This is the kind of thing you can pull off.
> Big corps will blow $2 billion as a favor to their old frat buddy.
Have you ever sat in the room while some Booz-Allen-Hamilton dick says with a straight face that they'll hit the "has a login screen" milestone by Q4 next year? I swear, I fucking *swear*, the second the WBG/IMF are torched, New York will become a crater.
> no small business spends that kind of money unless it's working
I've seen what small businesses will spend money on and what it will not. "I can patch this and make it do what you want but you'll spend most of your time watching a race to see if it will catch fire *before* it gets hacked." "Yeah, yeah, just patch it." [Catches fire, I get complaints, I avoid saying "I fucking told you, you dipshit" and say "I'll be back at my desk in 20" because, although I'm not a salesman, I do know how to avoid fucking up *that* badly.] They will pay more for duct tape than for concrete; this makes sense if they're growing and disposable infra is optimal.
What 99% of them want/need is the little three-page rollout with WordPress: front page, blog, contact form. This is stuff that was already automated without agents. Most little dev shops had a single-button rollout for this and they'd sell it in a $299 package and throw in a free logo "redesign". This is the kind of thing you can pull off.
> Big corps will blow $2 billion as a favor to their old frat buddy.
Have you ever sat in the room while some Booz-Allen-Hamilton dick says with a straight face that they'll hit the "has a login screen" milestone by Q4 next year? I swear, I fucking *swear*, the second the WBG/IMF are torched, New York will become a crater.
As most code is shit AI is fully capable of replacing 99% of programmers!
See, we are in absolute agreement for once!!!
See, we are in absolute agreement for once!!!
I have been coder-adjacent for over 25 years now. A few are good, many are bad, some don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. One thing's for sure - as a group, they all appear to work very hard, then the product is shit. Whether that's wholly their fault or not is subject to debate. My current company has been preparing to replace them for over a year now.
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