Yes, HN discussions of LLMs are quite tiresome. I make indie apps, but it has been getting worse and worse over the years, as the API surfaces and UI variety of iOS and Android have grown.
Claude Code and ChatGPT brought me back to the early 2010s golden age when indies could be a one-man army. Not only code, but also for localizations, marketing. I'm even finally building some infrastructure for QA automation! And tests, lots of tests. Unimaginable for me before because I never had that bandwidth.
Not to mention that they unblock me and have basically fixed a large part of my ADHD issues because I can easily kickstart whatever task or delegate the most numbing routine work to an agent.
Just released a huge update of my language-learning app that I would never dreamed of without LLM assistance (lots of meticulous grammar-related work over many months) and have been getting a stream of great reviews. And all of that for only $100+20 a month – I was paying almost twice as much for Unity3d subscription a decade ago.
All that is fine. The bubble only happens if in your ecstasy you manage to think more of your indie apps, in which case Wallstreet has no qualms about taking any rando AI app public. When this is done at scale, you create the toxic asset that 401ks pile into.
In short, you and others like you will enjoy your time, but will care very little of the systemic risk you are introducing.
But hey, whatever, gotta nut, right?
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I don’t mean you specifically. Companies like Windsurf, Cursor, many, they are all currently building the package for Wallstreet with literally no care that it will pull in retail investment en masse. This is going to be a fucked up rug pull for regular investors in a few years.
We’re in a much wilder financial environment since 2008. It’s very normal for crypto to be seen as a viable investment. AI is going to appear even more viable. Things are primed.
Claude Code and ChatGPT brought me back to the early 2010s golden age when indies could be a one-man army. Not only code, but also for localizations, marketing. I'm even finally building some infrastructure for QA automation! And tests, lots of tests. Unimaginable for me before because I never had that bandwidth.
Not to mention that they unblock me and have basically fixed a large part of my ADHD issues because I can easily kickstart whatever task or delegate the most numbing routine work to an agent.
Just released a huge update of my language-learning app that I would never dreamed of without LLM assistance (lots of meticulous grammar-related work over many months) and have been getting a stream of great reviews. And all of that for only $100+20 a month – I was paying almost twice as much for Unity3d subscription a decade ago.