alt Hacker NewsGive us some examples of things that were not practically possible. Things are practically possible if the time or money is wisely spent, even if it takes a human a bit longer.
Give us some examples of things that were not practically possible. Things are practically possible if the time or money is wisely spent, even if it takes a human a bit longer.
Money and time are precisely the point. Things are not practically possible of a X would cost 100K to develop and it's worth was 30K. But now that it costs 2K to develop it is suddenly practically possible.
1. A person building alternatives to photoshop single handedly: https://gizmodo.com/someone-vibe-coded-a-free-knockoff-of-ad...
2. The abundance of game decomps and recomps becoming available. Literally dozens of example in this space.
3. Reverse engineering of obscure software. A ton of oppertunities lie here.
4. As this posts indicate, severely accelerating existing software by re-writing it in language that are not terrible for performance.
5. Analyzing large volumes of unstructured information.
6. Creating one-off engineering and scientific tools.
7. Beating essentially all traditional Linux distribution, see Omarchy.
8. A personal example: I'm remaking the engine of an old game commercial game in rust.
I'm honestly a bit taken aback that this question is even asked. The volume of software is exploding and the power of the individual has increased a hundredfold.