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Only the Codex terminal agent is open source, the Codex GUI app is still closed AFAIK.

We stole all your work, just subscribe to get it back... now at $500/month.

Welcome back and godspeed.

We're being sold our own skill set back to us in a gated service that was created only because we allowed them to steal our intellectual property.

Paying for an IDE, course or fancy tools was paying for complementary additions instead of the core.

Just look at the, often smug, messaging of these companies. Your means of producing economic value are being centralized. The perceived and actual value of software products is being lowered, but some keep bragging about how a bot is doing their job.

Open-source models must win.

App Store releases are increasing due to a new gold rush on subscription apps. Review times have gotten longer as the review team at Apple is being spammed.

Most of these apps are rudimentary habit trackers, time management apps etc. so not much creativity, much more recycled ideas. More code != better ideas though.

https://www.a16z.news/i/185469925/app-store-engage https://42matters.com/ios-apple-app-store-statistics-and-tre...

The referenced post has a very high change of being planted. The upvote count is an anomaly for a brand new account, few sentences, no link, Tell HN post.

I upvoted it by mistake, it looked genuine. However the comments contain a lot of "everything is awesome" responses without backing up their claims. The poster does not participate in the discussion at all.

I like HN but it seems to be getting spammed with hidden ads.

There's a lot of tech banter on Twitter and LinkedIn, much of which is noise you can filter out.

SaaS is not dead. People and businesses benefit from having relatively cheap access to maintained standardized software.

The "SaaS is dead" idea comes from some people using coding agents and thinking that companies will now produce their own internal software packages (CRM etc.) instead of buying in. Why would they bother?

However, highly-specific internal software might see interesting developments.

Have people naturally started sounding like an LLM when they write and talk? To me this article reads not fully human.

I'm expecting a similar situation to the Video game crash of 1983 which happened due to total market saturation with low quality products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Everyone is talking about how many things they are building. Non-devs suddenly building... But nobody seems to call out the basic law of supply and demand.

You can be the greatest marketer but you will fail when all channels are flooded. Thinking your "taste" will save you is a false fallacy, most mainstream products suck and people still buy them. There's not an infinite demand for software.

It will eventually settle in some new market configuration. However devs shouldn't have broken their market by letting everyone in, was a stupid professional move.

The agents are good enough to get results when an experienced person is properly guiding these tools.

However, during the holidays there was a big marketing campaign, mainly on Twitter. Everyone started posting the same talking points repeatedly and suddenly, and triggered a storm of fomo perfect for when everyone was not working.

There was no sudden huge jump, I've been using AI code tools since 2024 and was surprised to see this sudden hype when the tools worked ok before.

I see it the same way. Why would we rebuild a custom solution when $10 per user has it all?

SaaS was always about the service part and works better when other companies use the same tool.

Unique software specific to business needs will get more interesting though.

"Building X is easy now"... it was never hard if you had the patience to read docs.

We should be saying "Building X is faster now" instead. But I guess that doesn't induce god complex that effectively.

I've noticed a change in technical blog articles in the past 2 years. Why do most contain phrases like "everything changes", "not behind (yet)" etc.?

If you have a valid point to make, you don't need to force FOMO on the reader.

There are websites with the spells listed... which makes this a search problem. Why is an LLM used here?

Refreshing to read a balanced opinion, from a person who has significant experience and grounding in the real world.

How can you be so sure to think you're not replaceable? Because when you use the tools, you're giving data to companies to eventually get even you.

Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...

Accepts the word "human" as well.

update: Start with the word "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.

So many em dashes... and on the default vibe gradient too.

> I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don’t expect to say anything particularly useful or novel.

Are they really late? Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subscriptions?

Am I the one wrong here or these expressions of "falling behind" are creating weird FOMO in the industry?

EDIT: I see the usefulness of these tools, however I can't estimate how many people use them.

Serious prompt engineering right here

Tech spec: https://divine.video/proofmode-spec

Everyone in the field seems to be in deep FOMO driven by the other guys also being in a state of FOMO. This creates chaos, delusion and a stressful environment where things are irrational.

I understand your thoughts, we have to keep pushing through this and saner heads will prevail.

Very nice! I've found that the default iOS screen time feature is easily skippable. Barcode scanning is an interesting real-world "lock".