alt Hacker NewsFor the people arguing that the output is the code and the faster we generate it the better..
I do wonder where all the novel products produced by 10x devs who are now 100x with LLMs, the “idea guys” who can now produce products from whole clothe without having to hire pesky engineers.. where is the one-man 10 billion dollar startups, etc? We are 3-4 years into this mania and all I see on the other end of it is the LLMs themselves.
Why hasn’t anything gotten better?
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I'm waiting for Anthropic to realise they can just set a few thousand agents loose to do just that, and monopolize the entire software market overnight. I'm not sure why they haven't done this yet.
Going 100x faster is the problem. As they say, “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,” when going for product market fit this is very important (and understated, in my opinion). It doesn’t help that your thread is spinning out at a hundred yards a second when what you’re doing is trying to thread the needle.
Could be possible that the 10x devs working at 100x are just starting down the homestretch…
The 10x dev doesn’t just set out to build a hello world app, ya know.
Marketing is the moat llms haven't been able to overcome. Being able to create a Word clone is easier but the difficulty of selling it is as hard or harder than ever.
Show me an llm that can sell my product and find market fit.
In reality llms are taking away profitable tools and keeping the revenue themselves.