Jono

Startupland Semi-Pro writing weekly, long-forms about my journey to MicroSaaS Solopreneur at High-frequency, low-filter content @semiprodev

[Jono @jonoberg]

🚀🚀🚀 Excited to share my first in a series on Semi-Pros and how large language models (like the eponymous ChatGPT) are allowing this new class of builders into the software engineering game.

https://t.co/Plko9WGqJf

[Semi-Pro @semiprodev]

If you are, or have been, a Sales/Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, Support Engineer or Technical Account Manager this message is an ode to you.

We believe that software engineering isn't only for the "professionals" anymore.

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@Shpigford @zachrichheimer @maybe Plaid has a free plan for individuals, right? For 100 financial account

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@JarrettLusso @apanasenko @Shpigford @maybe @DetangleAI @teller @Plaid Managing and updating client side scraping is much more difficult than server side but like I said. I’d take the management problem over the unreliable data scraping problem that companies like Plaid are currently plagued with

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@JarrettLusso @apanasenko @Shpigford @maybe @DetangleAI @teller @Plaid I’m going to have to agree with Anton here. Replacing server-side data providers with client’s running their own local data scraper is overall a better set of trade-off.

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@JarrettLusso @apanasenko @Shpigford @maybe @DetangleAI @teller @Plaid I formerly worked for a company that helped financial institutions prevent data providers from scraping a user’s financial data. It was easy to block scalpers like Plaid because everything was uniform. It would be impossible to stop scraping from legit clients

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@alanklement @rjs I know those feels: https://t.co/zFnDvGqgOr

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@rjs The access to being both the business and technical pieces of the startup pie has been increased. The bar to solo entrepreneurship has been lowered.

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@rjs I would argue that there will be a convergence. SWEs will need to understand user/GTM better so that they can take a product to market without a business co-founder AND PMs or technical Semi-Pros will need to build.

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@Shpigford I had to roll my own. LangChain makes it pretty simple but I've only had time to make a CLI interface. I'm planning on evaluating Smol dev this weekend. Def looks promising

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Does anyone know when https://t.co/ymX92Y7unq became Times Square?

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@Shpigford Is none an option?

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@MikeK_LA @rachel_l_woods As a technical Semi-Pro, I fully recognize that I don't know everything about architecture/security/performance. But I have found that anytime ChatPGT produces some code I don't understand I can ask it to explain and help me reason through how to solve the problem

[Jono @jonoberg]

@rachel_l_woods I love this! I think of myself as a Semi-Pro. I live in CS-land but I'm not an engineer. ChatGPT has augmented my personal library of software dev knowledge and allows me to build "as if" I am a SWE.

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@xrpl_adam @rachel_l_woods I agree that is requires experience to piece everything together. I think of exp as mental models or design patterns. One of the greatest powers of LLMs is that they can explain the code that they generate back to you. Help you short cut some of the learning curve.

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@dannberg I'll have something for by the end of the weekend. 😉

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@Shpigford I had similar values to yours. I started on 5k IUs daily and felt immediately jacked. I had boundless energy for the first week and felt amazing for first month. Back to normal levels of energy about two months in but much improved from the highly depressed state I was in before

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@MrSimonBennett How about R2? I’d rather not pay to pull my files back out or every time I want to share with someone

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@stayallive Highly recommend Handshake domains. You can purchase via Namebase

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@MrSimonBennett The way I think about it is that web3 is the idea that an application can be owned and operated by a community rather than a single organization. For example, Filecoin is a community owned and operated replacement for Amazon S3.

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@da_ben_dan @ChilliDoor @MrSimonBennett My understanding is that internet protocols like HTTP and TCP are decentralized (governed by the community rather than a company) but most applications are not (e.g. Facebook, Google Search, etc). TL;DR, the internet is decentralized but the web is not.