Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

Re:Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI by pessimizer on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:57PM (#47654786)

I have no idea what this flood of personal-use software is that you think normal people want to produce. Normal people don't even think about software doing a thing until they see an advertisement about software that does a thing. And then they'd rather pay 10 bucks for it than to invent a shittier version of it themselves for $500.

And I'm not being condescending about normal people. Developers often don't think about the possibility of making software that does a particular thing until they actually see software that does that thing. And they're going to also going to prefer to buy than vibe code unless the program is small and insignificant.

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Re:Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI by csallen on Sunday April 05, 2026 @07:31PM (#47655042)

Go look at the numbers from Lovable and Replit and Claude Code and similar companies. Quite staggering.

I myself have run an online community for early-stage startup founders for over a decade. The number of ambitious people who would love to build something but don't know how to code and in the last year or two have started cranking out applications is tremendous. That number is far higher than the number of software engineers who existed before.

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Re:Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI by skydhash on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:26AM (#47656991)

That's very much an echo chamber you find yourself in. I'm far away from any technological center and the main use of LLM for people is the web search widget, spell checking and generating letters. Also kids cheating on their homework.

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