alt Hacker NewsExactly. The idea that ideas are cheap and all that matters is execution is absurd.
Imagine saying this about a great record album in music. Or any masterwork of art.
From growing up with my young brain being programmed by surrealist MTV videos, in a society driven by tiktok brains, creativity will be at an absolute premium.
Just the idea that this is a bad time for the solo developer is so uncreative that it boggles my mind but it is hardly surprising.
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There have been times in history when merely having the ability to turn an idea to software has been such a marketable skill you could fairly effortlessly get rich off it, like the early mobile app era saw some examples of that.
Those times were always pretty brief, and those markets were quickly saturated by people looking to make it rich. It was certainly not the state of anything in the years leading up to agentic coding.
Ideas were “cheap” before because implementation was harder. Now I guess the coin has flipped.