@OpenAI This video makes me want to move into scrappy off-the-grid shack. Neon lights and cables everywhere. Chain-smoking and letting my hair grow. Spending all day staring at three flickering terminals running raw code. #resistance
@GergelyOrosz And where the agent use embedded ui components and receives data with instructions from the API on which component to use for display emedded in the agent.. So i can choose ui style once.
@shazcodes Big Tech took open source, built cloud empires, and is now selling it back to us through LLMs. The original ideals are dying. I’d rather pay micro-payments for closed-source code so independent developers can finally make a living as digital craftsmen again.
Coding was never really about writing code. AI is just making that impossible to ignore.
You no longer need to recall syntax, boilerplate, or API endpoints. That was always the easy part, and AI is very good at it.
The hard part was never typing. It was thinking.
Compressing a messy real-world problem into a clean software layer. That's what developers actually love, and it's still on you.
We have been removing the typing part for decades. From assembly to high-level languages, to frameworks, to no-code.
AI is just the best abstraction to date.
Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself “I’ll just get it done this weekend.” Review Parkinson’s Law and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesn’t fall through the floor. Focus, get the critical few done, and get out. E-mailing all weekend is no way to spend the little time you have on this planet.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine stopped contributing to a few open source projects he's been working on for decades.
He just stopped.
"I don't want to train my replacement for free," were his exact words.
I keep thinking about this.
I really don't know what will happen to open-source projects in the next few years, when it becomes painfully obvious that developers no longer care because they can just "build" whatever they need on the spot.
By the way, I don't think developers should be reinventing the wheel every time, and there's absolutely zero chance that leads to better software, but the reality is that many people don't care anymore.
Just a fair warning to founders: like Facebook and microsoft, I predict OpenAI will study their platform partners and compete with many of them in the coming years.
This isn't abnormal, mind you… Microsoft built windows, then destroyed their top partners lotus 1-2-3 and wordperfect with excel and word
Standup an open source llm or use pure platform plays who don't have to hit $200B in revenue to break-even in their 1.4t build outs
Every dollar you spend with openAI and every job you send to their API, might create the demise of your business