Re:We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On
by ryanmcl on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:54AM
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I'm one of those people. Taught myself Rails 8 months ago at 45 with zero coding experience. I now have a production app with real Stripe payments, AI voice cloning, background audio processing, and a PWA with push notifications. Live users, live transactions.
Before AI assistance this simply wasn't in my possibility space. Not because I couldn't think through the problems, but because the gap between "I know what I want to build" and "I can actually build it" required years of skill acquisition I didn't have while raising my son and being a good husband (after some rough years ay).
The glut isn't visible yet because most of us aren't shipping to HN. We're shipping to our tiny audiences, our friends and family, our niche communities. The software exists ...it's just not venture-scale so nobody's writing about it.
Before AI assistance this simply wasn't in my possibility space. Not because I couldn't think through the problems, but because the gap between "I know what I want to build" and "I can actually build it" required years of skill acquisition I didn't have while raising my son and being a good husband (after some rough years ay).
The glut isn't visible yet because most of us aren't shipping to HN. We're shipping to our tiny audiences, our friends and family, our niche communities. The software exists ...it's just not venture-scale so nobody's writing about it.