Gary Hoberman

Founder and CEO @Unqork

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What if there were no more output tokens needed to create any software? 50%+ revenue disappears from Anthropic and OpenAI? And what if your annual IT spend dropped in half? Welcome to What-if.. #unqorkAI

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We need judges! Hoping for @garrytan @Grady_Booch @alliekmiller @decisionleader @AndrewYNg @lexfridman

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AI Goliaths! I’m challenging you to a battle royale. Developed by some of the top minds in AI, UnqorkAI is ready to take on the biggest names in the business. Our weapons of choice? Production-ready apps. Real-world value. AI speed.

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Think your code gen AI approach is better? Prove it.

⏱️ Build a production-ready app in 4 hours
⚔️ Same requirements revealed that day
5⃣5 people max per team
📍 Live and in person
💰 $5K max token budget
⚖️ Independent judging: security, performance, UX
❤️ $10K buy-in, all proceeds go to charity

Demos bend the knee. Production-ready apps take the crown.

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@venturetwins 100% agree. Writing code has always been the easy part. Architecting designing and supporting it in production is the challenge!

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100% agree. Increasing your surface area by expanding your code base just sets you up for a darker future

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More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.

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@mcuban Mark, most enterprise needs (coming from a former F50 Enterprise CIO) are deterministic, defined with runbooks that regulators review. The need for true agentic decision making is limited and being used as excuse for lack of innovation and SDLC slowdowns.

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What do you think? For Enterprises does it still make sense for IT to be separate from the business today?

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@swapnakpanda If AIs code writing and architecting skills continue to improve it will go from senior to junior to business analyst. Business controls budgets. Requirements. Why wouldn’t they just take over their own destiny. Does IT then become the janitors of tech

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Benjamin Button and relation to VIBE coding

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Question: Would you give claude code directly to your business partners for their analysts to create solutions that went straight to production?

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Hi @APompliano should do podcast once more! IMO, code gen has never made businesses more productive. Problem was never writing code, it was the resources diverted to maintaining it once it was written... set it and forget it... more like set it and pray. My prediction is AI outside code gen eliminates switching costs. So the best products and services win. Those businesses who have had bad customer success/pricing will go out of business entirely. Darwinism enabled by efficient onboarding/offboarding. My 2 centrs

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@catalinmpit My first engineering job was taking over cleanup of bugs from another senior engineer. The entire code base was wrapped in what would today be called a "try/catch" and there was nothing in the catch. Yet that is still better than the AI slop of today.

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Does the AI bubble burst if all the revenue from code generation disappears?

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@JonhernandezIA next step - business shifts left so they orchestrate agents, IT becomes janitors cleaning up mess afterwards

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@mert writing the code was the easiest part... until it gets to production. then the nightmare begins. so few people pay for that nightmare and see how much it holds your business back.

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@NoahKingJr Tech will go back into business where it started originally. Was a lot more fun then

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When the business builds the software from just a specification, no dropping into code when vibe breaks, no code reviews, no maintenance worries, what’s the value of these agentic coders when they are not burning any tokens?

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What value do you place on all these coding IDEs when there are no more coders?

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@hunvreus When the VIBE breaks, pray...