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Re:Increasing your practice surface area by ChanningAllen on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:50PM (#45443327)
It's doing better than ever! LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly, so there's a huge uptick in # of new bootstrapped startups.

In fact we (the Indie Hackers founders) are bootstrapping a new B2B app now that Claude Code & Codex CLI (etc) are on the org chat.

Re:Increasing your practice surface area by mikestorrent on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:15PM (#45443654)
I hope this is a parody post and not actually the real exhultations of an actual founder.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by zrules on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:49PM (#45443941)
For post-product-market-fit hires or scale-up engineering teams, the interview process could skip LeetCode and instead test how well candidates can identify and debug issues introduced by LLMs. Less binary trees, more LLM bug-hunting
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by myth_drannon on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:10PM (#45445426)
Well the OP is the co-founder of Indie Hackers...
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by mikestorrent on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:58PM (#45445947)
:shrug: Good for him
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by pcthrowaway on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:56PM (#45445940)
> LLMs offer the equivalent of $500k+ in outside funding if used correctly

And it only costs $1M to use them correctly!