A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it.
It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways.
Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo...
Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all.
So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design.
They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job.
Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before.
Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.
La mentira más peligrosa en la historia humana:
No se trata de comida.
No se trata de medicina.
Se trata de sueño.
1. 8 horas de sueño es una mentira inventada por una empresa de colchones.
@gossipaddress@dhh In fact, this is just the tip of the iceberg; hidden in his wardrobe is a huge server cluster running AI to do the work for him. With such a lovely view, I might well be too lazy to work – it’s far too comfortable, which isn’t good for productivity :)
@TradexWhisperer On 27 July, China’s Changxin Technology (SH688825, share price 49.00 yuan, market capitalisation 3.28 trillion yuan) was listed on China’s STAR Market, closing up 465.82 per cent to become the ‘new king’ in terms of market capitalisation.
A word of caution to investors: buying semiconductor stocks won’t make you money. Due to U.S. restrictions, a Chinese company has emerged, and I estimate that this company will capture 50% of the market share in the future.
@TradexWhisperer On 27 July, China’s Changxin Technology (SH688825, share price 49.00 yuan, market capitalisation 3.28 trillion yuan) was listed on China’s STAR Market, closing up 465.82 per cent to become the ‘new king’ in terms of market capitalisation.
@TradexWhisperer As production capacity increases, the market share of the three giants—Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron—is expected to continue to decline.
@TradexWhisperer On 27 July, China’s Changxin Technology (SH688825, share price 49.00 yuan, market capitalisation 3.28 trillion yuan) was listed on China’s STAR Market, closing up 465.82 per cent to become the ‘new king’ in terms of market capitalisation.
THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
From grok:
My ratings (0-100) on VM price/quality + AI coding CLI fit (Claude Code etc), vs Hetzner (backups, free firewall, hourly rescale):
Netcup 88 – best EU value
DigitalOcean 82 – most reliable/UX
Vultr/Linode ~80-81
Hostinger 78
OVH 75
Contabo 70 (max RAM/$ but inconsistent)
Oracle free tier 65
Netcup currently beats post-hike Hetzner on pure value for EU.