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DidntUseIttoday at 2:16 PM4 repliesview on HN

Think we’re saying the same thing.

I very actively work using LLMs (no “agentic” stuff) and agree with you - they are only really worth tasking out tedium to.

But a lot of - say a DM feature - is tedium. Something simple like adding reactions, adding read receipts. It’s not hard at all. The LLM easily excels at the task and yet I didn’t have to do it. There are 1000s of those tasks. Handling file uploads, filling out a W9 and emailing it to the user, cron jobs for digest emails. All very easy problems most LLMs can do. There are just countless tasks if you’re building a real SaaS and I don’t want to do them all.

The big problems LLMs can’t do are only as such because there’s no way to put it into a simple, linear instruction. Once you can though, it’s now an easy task (whether or not you use an LLM).

But yeah we’re saying the same thing - let the LLM do the 1000s of tedious tasks you normally wouldn’t be bothered to spend time on.

Build the entire SaaS (which is mostly that tedium) instead of just the MVP thing you need without any niceties. I find it opens up more opportunity, like for example, we are about to hire our first full-time employee because we’re taking on so much more business.


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whstltoday at 2:38 PM

> There are 1000s of those tasks.

Yep.

Plenty of products attacked this tedium from different angles, from Ruby and Rails to Supabase. And half of NPM. Heck, more than half.

LLMs are doing it a bit better, IMO. I don't have to rewrite the app in <whatever> or install <horrible dependency> to take advantage of it.

joeguilmettetoday at 2:23 PM

what business are you in?

Chris2048today at 2:42 PM

> The LLM easily excels

The agents are building all these small features, up to a full SaaS; and all the code is excellent?

How much time do you spend in code review?

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j45today at 2:22 PM

The "agentic" stuff has come a long way recently, it's worth revisiting it every few months, it is better and better at taking on the tedium especially.