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I mean across my personal projects i'm looking at around average of 40 Commits per day just myself. big days 150+. 7 days/wk, and that's NOT my regular 9-5 job. So i believe the volume is there. Yesterday I merged one feature integration branch that had 250 files changed and over 28 thousand lines changed. The whole thing was started from requirements, implemented, tested, and merged in less than 24 hours.

It's a crazy development world we are living in...

interesting concept. feels high gain at 1/wk. like, can it subscribe to my garmin connect or something?

I'd wager this is interesting, seems there are a lot of users here building things on the side (or main projects) that need clear UX if they're anything like me, they don't have that UX background to know the best practices. I know I just clicked your link anyway...

Maybe I'm missing something about the dev process here, or maybe the title needs adjusted. But, isn't this standard practice? We have a bunch of unit tests in main, and a PR is green on those before merging.

Sorry if I'm being dense, what am I missing about this?

are you asking what moat you can establish around a product that uses customer-facing LLM inference?

IMO, it's incredible the ability to build things rapidly, solo, and extremely cheaply. So as long as that's the case, the only moat left for you is customer access, customer loyalty, and pricing (though I think that last one is arguable)

The challenge as I see it is that for new products in this space to be successful, the solo dev either needs to BE or be partner with someone who has deep intimate domain knowledge and large network for the pain point their product solves (e.g. a 15 year supply chain manager for large manufacturing company rolls into solo dev a meaningful solution to a problem in their domain) or else the solo dev needs to already have a large social reach they can leverage to access customers.

Those are the kinds of moats I see being most effective.

Well I mostly had claude create skills for itself by working through what I wanted out of each stage of the process. So ultimately my workflow uses a skills toolbox that looks something like [anti-slop, brandkit, campaign-director, content-creator, output-enforcement, article-writing, visual-design, ig-content-pipeline, image-to-code, imagegen, infographic-creator, performance-analyst, reel-production, chart-reels, seo-growth, etc]

It's working ok, but not perfect. I'm not sure how much more value I would see from some of the paid services that are advertising heavily about automating the process

You can see links in my profile and probably find the IG pages if you're curious how it's going.

oh wow this is a lot more developed than i imagined - was expecting a github repo with some skills or something, this is a whole product. Some initial feedback:

Personally, if it's just informing me (hot formats, creators, topics) I am not sure I would be paying. I was hoping to see that i could connect my posting api and have it plan, develop, and run a whole campaign. - follow accounts, interact in a reasonable way with their content without spamming - design, and create a content backlog - make the posting calendar - automate the posts, comment replies, and dm replies

I like your site!

interesting, i've been thinking about this also in that I don't use tiktok but I think i need to try to get into it to market my work. feels daunting so I'll probably check out this project.

For instagram i did a similar thing with skills covering identifying formats that hook, generating campaign approaches, and then designing the actual content. mixed success so far but still early.

Oh wait so did you create your app within their little marketplace thing?

Pretty intriguing, odd but interesting site and approach. I kind of like it. I'm tempted to press the button... but i have literally no idea what is going to come out of it. Like am I sending out a fiver for the same thing if I just ask Gemini to give me a brand review of my website?

I honestly like the oddball feel of the main site. I am SUPER curious what your usage/adoption has been?? Also how are you driving traffic?

Cool project at the manyusefultools level!

In that case, awesome! I would recommend that as you go, stand up one or two boards with existing RTOS solutions, and come up with methods to measure metrics both for your solution and theirs. Would be a great way to learn and generate good information for a paper at the end.

I'm seeing that same sequence of stages with my org. In our work, we're currently at stage 3 Bargaining but there are teams here and there leapfrogging depression straight to acceptance. Exciting times if you ask me. The key is really focusing on the test and verification approach imo. Automate what you can, measure/log or proceduralize what can't be automated.

To me, just seems like a pointless statement. Yes, "good" has two meanings and therefore two antonyms... So what? Why compare them. They're independent. It's like saying "what is worse, a bee sting or stubbing your toe?"

Ah interesting thanks for the references I will take a look

It seems like an interesting project - I hope that your real interest is the embedded systems design and software, because if your true goal is an efficient path to a new fast drone platform, your README seems to kind of short circuit the trade study for DIYing an RTOS. But, it's going to be a great embedded systems project and you'll learn a lot that's for sure!

I mean, if it was me, I would not be launching with a business name so close to a well known and established brand https://shield.ai/ your SEO is DOA

Don't have a mac to try but site examples look cool! How did you handle arctic regions, arctic DEM? I assume it's an online app so you're serving the terrain height data or does it run offline?

Cool project. Feels like google earth mixed with a lowfi steam game i love Art of Rally :)

Such an interesting dilemma. Arguably an incredibly transformative new industry for which the market cannot fundamentally bear the costs. (or IDK, does it actually work now?) How will it play out??

I don't care how good AI is at something like software development or whatever task. If customers were paying real prices for usage would any of us be using it?

Any data out there on how far off enterprise API pricing is from actual compute COGS for these models right now?

you might make a hypothesis they'd offset operations costs like headcount for this but I think the counterpoint is stronger, if they benefit from increased productivity in your example, why not run more net production from same input.

Still though, the thesis seems based on an assumption that the companies would experience either major growth or major efficiency gain, neither of which really pass the smell test to me. Option 1 growth - money has to come from somewhere ultimately? Option 2 efficiency - put into profit rather than simple offset to AI provider?

Or the AI providers get companies hooked with subsidized pricing that unwinds later and you end up with the Uber/AirBNB situation of market capture and good product reverting to mean level of price/quality over time. Tinfoil hat thinks it ultimately gets squeezed out of retail investors in index funds.

do you know of anyone that's put out quantified studies on this? I'd be super curious to see. Like benchmarks at release vs 1wk vs 1mo?

It's pretty straightforward - I do the same when I'm worried about Fable usage quota. "Your usage is limited, run the token-heavy work through Opus5.5 subagents" simple as that. It works, lets Fable orchestrate, plan, and verify work.

Seems like a workaround that Anthropic might easily turn off if they decide they care.

I get Netscape in the 90's vibes and I'm here for it :)

i like the slick minimal ui. would be interesting to get some speed bonus as to me the most fun was trying to solve them quickly

I think this is actually awesome for the reviews. It's like a meta-analysis badge for shopping which personally I love the idea. Not to mention it's a great revenue path for your product

What scenario are you thinking about? We'll have more UAVs flying over time, but the time to double being short and staying consistent - I don't really see the specific reason to care about the rate of increase. My bet would be you see a combination of trends like how commercial air traffic expanded from the 50's to today, as well as like what happened with bird scooters (growth/death) turning into current ebike personal transport. So there will be cycles of businesses pushing, and communities/gov keeping it in check

In my experience there are different choices based on the software/development architecture you're using. For example are you using ROS2 or ardupilot in any way? Then maybe Gazebo. Most of my team uses Gazebo and while I find it a little clunky, it usually gets the job done.

I've heard some good things about the sim environment Nvidia put out but haven't tried it yet, I assume it has good physics.

if you want to deep dive it, you could spend an hour wading through some of their report details here, i find it pretty interesting. They had a task to do with limited context outside of that, so they tried things. Entertaining https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...

IMO I'd rather have fewer enshittified unusable websites so filled with ads I can't actually read anything than some awkwardly written paragraphs that I can skim/move on. I'd rather the pitchforks have been pointed at ad revenue toxicity the past decade than the AI stuff being the focal. Just my opinion.

omg i love that. reminds me of the hours i've spent on the paperclip game