I'm not sure the creators of tailwind share your definition of winning though. They recently had to let go of most staff since revenue has plummeted die to LLMs
I worked for a big Belgian technology company in the past. It was surprisingly lean in terms of management structure. Then Philips television, which had a big division not too far away, went bankrupt and a lot of those people got absorbed into our company. Within a couple of years the Philips people were able to transform the company to be very management/top heavy until nothing worked anymore.
On the other hand, we're the only high paid workers that provide so much work for free through open source. Sure, there's lawyers and doctors that do the occasional pro bono, nut nothing on the scale you find in software development.
Yes AI solves this issue in the best way. It's really good at adding features that have already been built many times, but in a way that's customized to your needs and code style.
I don't think the ikea analogy works. Ikea is like a low code solution, which the article also mentions as being too limiting. If you can't design the closet you want in the ikea pax or platsa system, you're also out of luck and will need to get something completely custom built. Especially since the paper honeycomb Ikea furniture doesn't lend itself to modifications.
To me, what sucks the most about programming is dealing with ecosystem issues. You want to write a little tool for personal use, but NPM starts acting out. Then you need to do something in java, which you don't use very often, and you get a giant maven error stack trace which you now need to try to understand. All of this frustration is gone since I use AI and I can focus solely on the thing I'm trying to accomplish.
Made me remember again how disappointed I was (food-wise) that time I went backpacking in the Philippines after backpacking in Thailand. Most days we had to choose between dry rice with tasteless fried chicken, or tasteless fried chicken with dry rice.
The company I work for is in the defense industry and by contract can't send any code outside their own datacenter. So cloud-rented H200's are a no-go and obviously commercial LLM's as well. so breaking even is not the goal here.
Let's say I have a server with an h200 gpu at home. What's the best open model for coding I can run on it today? And is it somewhat competitive with commercial models like sonnet 4.5?
This! I've recently was hired to fix a company that tried to build their own niche ERP over the last 10 years and they had totally drowned in the confluent kool-aid. There is very very few projects where event sourcing is the best solution.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950