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  1. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    Not sure what the point of that negativity is? Yes. I have run businesses before. Done management. I’m pretty good at sales but could work on marketing. What’s the constructive takeaway?
  2. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    I'm 32. If you think a salaried job is safer I'm not sure why you're here. I'd say that's even more risky especially in tech. All I'm doing then is putting my fate in someone else's hands as they run a business which you say is doomed to fail if you or I ran it? Seems like a strange logic. The...
  3. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    I have no doubt you're right about marketing and sales. On marketing, I think I over-invested my time in SEO. It worked amazingly for me in the past, but I think the landscape has shifted dramatically. I've never been an ad man, so if you have any suggestions for the best marketing strategies...
  4. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    I've been thinking about this a lot too, that is the heart of my question essentially. I want to believe my 15 years have no been fully wasted and there are somethings I can add from the POV of professional design and development experience that will result in a true value skew for the end...
  5. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    This is exactly what I'm talking about. Even though we can make the argument that this is not original, that it is just straight up stealing copyrighted code and rewriting it in Rust, this sort of back-engineering would not have been possible even a year ago, not at this speed.
  6. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    8 months ago I would have said the same thing. I was saying the same thing. Unfortunately yes you can get pretty damn close. This is undeniably impressive View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uf5OfMGio - there was a time when as he says it would take a year for a team of 10 people to make...
  7. Levit

    Has AI killed the software business dream?

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    This is hard to write, and it has been spiralling me into depression lately. I have 15 years of software engineering experience, and I think the industry as I knew it is dead. My dream was always to reach retirement through a software business: SaaS or digital products. I've built a few over...
  8. Levit

    The AI Software Apocalypse...

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    From my perspective, software development isn't in any way solved by LLMs. There's such a huge difference between making tiny micro tools and real value-packed, comprehensive software that is dependable and well-designed. Still, I can see both sides. To me, most of the stuff spat out by "AI" is...
  9. Levit

    I've Read The Great Rat-Race Escape!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Finally got around to reading this. Love the mix of narrative storytelling with the non-fiction wisdom from Fastlane
  10. Levit

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

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    @MJ DeMarco what's your take on the thousands of solo founder AI businesses popping up these days which are just wrappers? Most vanish quickly. A few succeed but briefly. Built on someone else’s model, vulnerable to price hikes or native features making them obsolete. Does this break the...
  11. Levit

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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  12. Levit

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    You may just mean coming down with an illness for a few days etc, but a lot of people I know are chronically ill and I'm talking about relatively young people in their late 20s and early 30s. To some extend I'd even include myself in that due to chronic migraine headaches I've never been able to...
  13. Levit

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    If anyone seriously thinks they can use AI to do 80% of their coding without understanding what it outputs they are in for a world of pain lol
  14. Levit

    Tin Foil Hat Time: Are Aliens Here?

    HOT! CHAT 
    Yeah, I understand the scepticism. I don't believe much of anything without firsthand experience myself. However, I don't think that's entirely all there is to it here or at least the reason for that scepticism is different. It seems more like a sign of the times as I get the feeling if we had...
  15. Levit

    Tin Foil Hat Time: Are Aliens Here?

    HOT! CHAT 
    On this subject, I was thinking recently that it's interesting how little people care about the potential presence of aliens, given all the recent developments that have brought the idea into the mainstream. It seems like most people are purely apathetic towards the idea. We always portray the...
  16. Levit

    I only watch porn once a day...

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    That's reasonable. I have no disagreement with that.
  17. Levit

    I only watch porn once a day...

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    How can you apply an objective standard to people when they have such a high variability across so many vectors? What makes you think the psychological isn't rooted in the physiological? By what mystical magical means does the mind work if not based on something physical? If you have clinical...
  18. Levit

    I only watch porn once a day...

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    I will play devil's advocate and say you can and sometimes MUST find balance. A balance that works for you as an individual, that's tailored towards moving towards your goals in the way that you can, and I say that as someone that has a terrible track record of not being at all balanced and a...
  19. Levit

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I don't find these to be mutually exclusive skills at all. Programming is fantastic to learn, particularly if you enjoy it for its own sake, as it will teach you problem-solving on a level that little else can. Copywriting, marketing, sales, and psychology are all absolutely fascinating, and...
  20. Levit

    Is YouTube a good business to start for a 14 year old?

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    Don't even worry about that at all. I know it's hard to have that perspective right now, but right now with age on your side, now is the time to make as much as you can. It doesn't matter if 99% of it does suck. You have a licence to make every possible mistake and get credit just for trying...

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