I love this. I have to be on LinkedIN daily to look for a job, and I am so tired of every posts with the same language/pattern/tone. Don't even start me on the animated infographics...
People don't realize how generic and none sensical all this is. I'm so excited by the richness your tool offers. Can't wait to make it part of my daily favorites!
Amen. Now with all the agents and bots, I often pause and wonder — how much code is there left to write that we need AI as our saving grace? How many unsolved problems, underserved customers, unanswered questions actually justify the volume? Where did we all go wrong?
"Do me a SOLID, YAGNI, give me a DRY KISS" — that's been my coding philosophy for 20 years. So when I came back to building after a long detour, I couldn't stomach watching agents confidently generate 400 lines where 40 would do.
What I found is that the discipline was the feature, not the obstacle. I ended up pair programming closely — not because I distrusted the agent, but because I couldn't let go of the architecture. The internet kept telling me to stop going into the weeds. Your article explained why that instinct was right.
Everyone else is happy grinding in third the whole race. I went 1, 2, 3 — and because I didn't bury myself getting out of the driveway, I still get to shift into fourth.
The cost structure here is what stands out to me. $2.50/hr makes this viable for personal or small-business use cases that would have been unthinkable a year ago — security footage, home cameras, dashcam archives. The interesting design question is what happens when that cost drops another 10x and this is just a default feature of consumer cameras. Most people won't opt out of something they didn't know they opted into.