alt Hacker News> What started as a community experiment is becoming infrastructure. The developers behind Ralph and Taskmaster figured out something real. Now the platforms are catching up.
> That’s usually how it goes. The practitioners find the patterns first. Then the patterns become features.
This is the scariest thing atm with the fast pacing of these things. As capabilities increase, everything you've spent time on building (w/ scaffolding, tooling, etc) gets "merged" into the all-you-can-prompt solution that the big labs provide. If your previous work has no differentiation, it's very hard to provide additional value / monetise it. And it's hard to know what will be differentiation or what will get eaten up.
It's that sci-fi story trope of the colony ship that gets overtaken by a new generation engine, and when they reach their planet they find a thriving colony there already. But with software :)
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I am musing with the idea that other than dipping a toe in, investing a lot of time in this stuff is a waste (for this reason) and a better use is get deeper human domain experience in XYZ.
100% agree with this, tooling is no longer an advantage.
The only thing I say to myself on this, given how Ralph took months to be notice (and taskmaster is still flying somehow under the radar comparatively speaking), is that people are drowning with the volume of new features / tools. It’s what you do with these tools that matters at the end of the day and shift goes more on GTM, marketing etc. rather than uniqueness of software. Most important thing: find clients :) Anyway interesting times!