alt Hacker NewsSmall personal projects are really not comparable to professional software development in a corporate setting.
In fact your example demonstrates what the article says. Yeah the LLM made coding easier, and probably reduced your shipping time from a few days to a few hours.
Now - since you have solved the hardest problem and have all this valuable code - how long will it take you to turn your product into a business and generate enough money to support yourself?
That's the hard part.
> Now - since you have solved the hardest problem and have all this valuable code - how long will it take you to turn your product into a business and generate enough money to support yourself?
> That's the hard part.
It's now even harder because SNR fell off a cliff. As the effort to produce a product approaches zero, the financial viability of that product goes to zero as well.