We should be more ambitious with the software we build

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build by darkmatriarch on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:06AM (#50228494)

I think there are many of us working on projects with LLMs that'll take months more to reach full production. These will feel very out of left field and we'll have another paradigm shift. I think the real momentum will hit when more of us leave the dull products we're working on, start our own companies, and build the products we're actually excited about.

I encourage everyone else to at least build a privacy first version of a product you actually like.

I don't think the centralized internet will survive this change. We can build something much better.

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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build by N_Lens on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:30AM (#50228612)

I think you underestimate how saturated the market is for both content and software.

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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build by Gigachad on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:02AM (#50228761)

I think there’s a lot of markets which have been very underserved for a long time which will benefit. One example is embroidery machine software. The proprietary options cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and are slow and ugly. The open source option (bless the people who have worked on it for free) is suboptimal.

With AI we could build top quality free open source tools for every niche.

In the retro gaming handheld space, we are seeing brand new highly custom “distros” show up to suit the plethora of hand held consoles in different shapes and sizes coming out. This is all enabled by AI, a human developer could have built this, but it would have taken ages and we wouldn't have so many options being build.

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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build by chiengineer3 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:28AM (#50228874)

Yup. Know people with 100m+ exits and I can't even find 10k in funding

All of a sudden nobody is interested in actually using the web now that it's so easy only for doom scrolling exclusively

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