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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by thefounder on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:30AM (#47476841)
You can launch a new product in one month instead of 12 months. I think this works best for startups where the risk tolerance is high but works less than ideal for companies such Amazon where system failure has high costs
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by dominotw on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:38AM (#47476893)
so where are these one man products lauched in a month?

not talking about toys or vibecoded crap no one uses.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by deaux on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:38AM (#47477440)
They're here, I made one. Not a toy or vibecoded crap, people got immediate value. Not planning to doxx myself by linking it. This was more than a year ago when models weren't even as good yet. A year later it has thousands of consistent monthly users, and it only keeps growing. It's nothing compared to VC startups but for a solo dev, made in a month? Again, it's not a toy, it offers new functionality that simply didn't exist yet and it improves people's lives. The reality is that there's no chance I would've done it without LLMs.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by lordkrandel on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:12PM (#47495866)
Blah blah blah
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:22AM (#47477809)
This is delusional. Are you someone that tends to have your finger on the pulse of every piece of software ever released, as it’s being released, with knowledge about how it’s built? You’re not.

Nobody is.

Perhaps nobody cares to “convince you” and “win you over”, because…why? Why do we all have to spoon feed this one to you while you kick and scream every step of the way?

If you don’t believe it, so be it.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by dominotw on Sunday March 22, 2026 @11:46AM (#47478723)
you seem mentally unstable. chill out dude. dont have to pick a fight with every comment.
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by fragmede on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:57AM (#47477043)
Aside from the things people have launched that don't count because I'm right, where are the things that have been launched?
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by dominotw on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:18AM (#47477221)
apps with actual users is too high of a bar now?
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by Throaway1975123 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:29AM (#47477344)
probs look in the game space to see a bunch of muggles making money off of "vibe coded" software
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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by gamblor956 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:45PM (#47480707)
Real ones don't exist. Conveniently, nobody that has claimed to have created a functional AI product is willing to "doxx themselves" by linking to their app.

Weirdly, people who have actually created functional one-man products don't seem to have the same problem, as they welcome the business.

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by oro44 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:12PM (#47483814)
Exactly. This is f"cking hilarious.

"oooh Im afraid of doxxing myself", wtf? lmao!

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Re:If AI brings 90% productivity gains, do you fire devs or ... by lordkrandel on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:17PM (#47495904)
Most startups fail because of no market or money issues, not because of product issues. You can build a wonderful cathedral and pray an empty god in a wonderful desert. Then someone cuts oil supply and the cathedral is not aor conditioned anymore. So go ahead, build 50 products, hope that 1 succeeds. My bet is that 50 will fail and 1 person in 1000 will succeed. But everyone will spend so much money on Nvidia and Anthropic that they will eradicate whatever else is in the world.
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