majky538

Couple years ago, we were developing product in team of 15 people.

Tech progressed, no need to dedicate mobile developers, guy for app deployment etc.

Later, team consists only from 3 devs, it earns money, no other features needed really much.

Now you see many companies refactoring whole app in week using AI. But later, for what will they spend the biggest part of the AI budget?

I see from business perspective, they try to build dependency on their tools, make it great, but ultimately, it doesn't ensure making money.

Friends company was paying 300-400k EUR monthly for AI, cut is expected for next year .. and even if they cut tomorrow, business runs.

Like renting shop space in my city, i can pay 500e monthly for nice location, but it's either for fun or hope I will make money from it.

I know guy who run cafe from his IT salary.

Thinking, up to specific price, it's great tool for devs, and from some higher price, you think more about how to earn money back.

I am scared more of this.

Last week I build my new project on free plan medium Luna OpenAI, totally fine.

A lot of new SaaS companies is just integrating AI into their products. Would be nice to follow this if they increase prices / how they are doing.

Not sure how big part of customers are random human coders / big tech / small-medium SaaS companies...

From S-1, some use-cases in many companies doesn't look convincingly.

Also interested in use cases. I tried, but went back to "normal" life and apps.

It's not impossible integrate AI to projects/products directly.

Same for bicycles manufacturers. At the beginning, nobody knew what's gonna be in the future, low orders and then high demand.

I agree, but anyway as mentioned, it's about tooling. When I compare creating JS SPA vs. for example .NET MVC website, with JS you will get awesome SPA (oh wait, do you really need that?) - easier way to create dynamic stuff but with cost of bigger complexity which probably comes in ways as project management, DevOps, testing.

I was developing some SPAs in Angular, React and of course there are some great things but I do not see the pure reason because of additional complexity to develop everything in this "modern" way.

It's Facebook library, not FE framework, enough for me. Never spent so much time configuring Angular app as React one.

Spending so much time on meetings, especially awesome agile scrum - standups and even when working in probably 5th company, business processes do not work well, people deal with same problems of work organization. For me as developer, this kills my productivity and annoys me sometimes when it's just to much in a week.

I remember content from friends, then no related content when Facebook was testing feed changes and now, it's mostly based on meme pictures and group posts. I forgot that there are any "friends".

As you said, you feel overwhelmend. For example,I usually code my side-project in the evening, after 8 hrs of coding at my job.

I have a goal to create working application. Is it a joy for me or just another work that takes my time and gives me nothing? Sometimes, I don't know. I keep working with different technologies, tools so it's not the same as at the job. When i feel, that's not a joy, I am tired or whatever, i don't force myself to do that.

Rather than "learning" programming language, you can write down an idea for the sample app and start working on that. Rather than reading a book, you can watch a video or you can go read outside.

Create schedule, couple hours per week, break your loop.

Oh, you are quite right. I've just created Netflix account, exploring movies - series based on images - trailers when browsing with mouse and so on. Anyway, I miss basic filter..

Watched 2 seasons of 2 different series in less than 48 hours.

Think twice before getting hired. Some companies are like nice looking Instagram profile, but behind the scene it just sucks.