Discussion

Nothing New to See Here

cyanydeez: reads like chatgpt talking to claude about imaginary things.While this may be a real human reality, the way it's presented is in the golly-gee-whiz, I'm just a farm-folk engineer.If you meant this to be convincing, it's not. It looks like copy-paste-find-replace of all these other tech blogs where they found $SHINYNEWEVIDENCE of $MODUS_OPERANDI and you should too.

bradleyy: Brad Feld is a pretty smart guy and I agree with his take. Is there a lot of AI slop out there? Sure.But is it possible to build real apps that work well? I can absolutely confirm. Deploying software that's used by household names.I think people are making a lot of false dichotomy around this, just because there's AI slop doesn't mean that it never works.

satisfice: The world seems to be divided between people who assume that things work well until they are proven not to, and the other kind of people, who are known as “responsible adults.”Responsible adults say that vibe-coding a serious product is a bad idea, because you aren’t capable of recognizing or fixing certain serious problems that commonly arise.

seydor: Why would you invest in a vibe app though? What's the moat that will protect your investment? That somebody "had an idea"? Conventional wisdom is that ideas are a dime a dozen

guiambros: Same reason you invest in any seed stage startup: the founder has a vision, you believe they have researched the topic more than anyone else, there's a meaningful total addressable market, and they have the focus and ability to get there. More importantly, you believe they have the resilience to endure for the next 10-15 years, even if they have to pivot a dozen times until they succeed.Software - at seed stage - was never a moat. It was just a prerequired (and scarce) resource. Classic example: Dropxbox in 2007 [1].That's not the case anymore (or won't be, at some point soon).[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863