Max Sandelin

Software Consultant by day, indie hacker by night. Building @finurligapp. Occasionally write on

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@EHuanglu

[James Clear @JamesClear]

To learn, wander. To achieve, focus.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@oneandonlyhusam BuT dO yOU rEaD tHE cOde?!

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@BenjaminDEKR A Swedish company is working on this very thing and recently got some heavy investments to continue building on this:

https://t.co/oBGeWeUWUe

[Pri @solopribuilds]

Hot Take:

Vibe coding doesn’t work at scale.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

Yeah... this is why I'm not at all bullish on the whole "AI will replace all junior devs". Nope, because this is the shit the junior devs will do, and already do.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A farmer killed nearly 25 acres of his own crop after listening to an AI app

It recommended spraying a chemical that destroyed weeds and also his plants

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

So much of what this platform hosts is bait for interaction. Trying my best to follow people who isn't out to simply voice a controversial opinion or make money on AI. People you can actually learn something from.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

SaaS is dead?

SaaS has always been dead. If...

Your product doesn't fit.
Your product is too expensive.
Your messaging is a maze.
You built a feature and called it a company.
You raised a round instead of a customer base.
Your costs are too high, your company too big.
You sound like everyone else.
You made buying hard.

SaaS ain't dead unless it was already dead.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@tlakomy Congrats!! 🎉

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

What I've realized after I've been one of the people who post and share "motivational" ideas, is that there is a very real skepticism to be had around people who do so. Especially from a position of "success", because it may very well just be marketing for that very success.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

As someone who's been in tech and a software engineer for the past 15 years, I am optimistic about what "AI" (LLM's) will help us achieve, but remain very skeptical about the impact on people's ability to take ownership of their work.

[DHH @dhh]

Ownership is underrated.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@alexisohanian

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

You either suffer by choice and thus build up the tolerance to handle the suffering you do not choose, or you numb yourself enough to never be able to feel either the effects of suffering, or proper happiness. The only way is through.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

I've been saying this since day one of ChatGPT. Your monthly subscription doesn't cover responsibility for things like incidents, data leaks, downtime and feature development.

[Povilas Korop | Laravel & AI Coding Educator @PovilasKorop]

Prediction: most of "I vibe coded a thing in a weekend" will stay internal and will never get released to public.

And from those that DO get released, most will stay at v1.0.

Users will still prefer STABLE off-the-shelf SaaS WITH INFRASTRUCTURE than "coded in a weekend".

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

We think so many more people will do the thing we dream of doing, chastising ourselves in the process because it's no use. Not realizing these very thoughts are what keeps everyone else from doing the thing. So why not just go do the thing? Prove yourself wrong.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

What if, the big truths never changed. What if all these small details about life that we think changes everything, doesn't actually change any of the fundamental truths about anything? And in reality, it's all just efficiency at the cost of quality and long term viability?

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@usr_bin_roygbiv This is dystopian. People relying on statistics to produce the right solution to a problem that impacts real people and possibly their money, rather than taking responsibility and understanding the fundamentals. Jesus christ...

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@IamAroke Responsibility over the output and what's deployed has never changed, it's still yours. Whether you choose to read the code or not, that you are responsible for to work and not cause data leaks, that's your call. But blaming OpenAI won't hold up in an incident meeting.

[Max Sandelin @themaxsandelin]

@trikcode Code, just like words, has never _had_ value in itself. The real skill is still, and always has been, to create the best solution given the right context. And what also hasn't changed is that humans are still responsible for the output.