Cloud platforms were built for a world where software was big and slow. You had a frontend, a backend, a database. You shipped one thing. You paid ...
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I think this is really marketed to people that want to put absolutely no effort into the products/tools/software that they create (as you said). Don't get me wrong: if that's working for you, awesome. But...
...this makes me a little bit sad. If you're able to run a business off of a model like this, what has "software development" really come to?
The same has been said when we stopped writing assembly. I think that’s the normal abstraction cycle!
That's a really interesting perspective to take! I've never thought about it that way.
I understand the need to go where the flow takes you. And I think it is a good option to have.
But I have some remarks about the content of the post.
Do you have data to back this up?
I don't believe this because there is more software out there than ever before. With more choices comes more specialization, and for that you have to pay more. In a fish restaurant you find average prices but in a sushi restaurant you pay more.
The problem is that because people with no coding skills can make software, people think the programming process is only there to fill the pockets of programmers. People fall in that trap with everything; cheap clothes, cheap food and so on. Cheap costs more than quality over time.
Do you want people like that on your infrastructure?
I did stupid things, and still do occasionally, but I learn from it. People with no knowledge will do stupid things over and over again, without knowing why.
A common way to cope with ones own problems is to blame others. And that could affect you in the end. Big companies don't care because they have other revenues, but as a specialized company it could be your downfall.
When where they ever a on going high quality process?
I rather start from a prototype that has some parts that can stay in the final project, than a thing that has to be rewritten from scratch.
That is true.
I wonder if the target audience is willing to pay for it with all the free tiers?
So, you say vibecoding people behave like lemmings?
How does sliplane fit here? Is it actively paving the way for the lemmings? THAT would be valuable
But yet another dumb infrastructure platform thingy will not save the lemmings
No? I don't really get where you get the lemmings thing from to be honest
wow. Nice post.
wow loved it.
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What a great post that is
thank you:)
Inspiring read
Interesting Blog
This resonates a lot, especially when building fast with AI. Have you seen any surprising usage patterns from early users on capacity-based platforms?
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This text reeks of Chatgpt
The cloud pricing model just doesn’t fit the way we're actually building things anymore.....feels like the market is overdue for a serious correction...
on it 🫡
You meant to write "a solo configurator", didn't you. Let's stop misusing the word dev, shall we.
I’m not here to gatekeep. If you write code for a living you’re a developer, ai assistance or not