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Isn't it too early to declare the vibe coded uptime monitoring as "good" from a business standpoint? NIH syndrome has always been a thing and I don't see how th
by hypeatei 6mo ago
Isn't it too early to declare the vibe coded uptime monitoring as "good" from a business standpoint? NIH syndrome has always been a thing and I don't see how the downsides of creating bespoke systems have changed in the LLM-era. You're now stuck maintaining this "genius" solution, LLMs or not, and onboarding devs/users gets harder the more churn you have.
- faangguyindia 6mo agoIt's 100 lines of code, how hard is it to maintain? It's absolutely better than paying for enterprise license of Uptime robo
- hypeatei 6mo agoOkay, so AI probably wasn't critical to crafting a 100 lines of what I'm assuming is python or some other scripting language that pings a url. Second, I don't think 100 lines is going to be as robust as some pre-packaged monitoring solution (open source or enterprise tier) which has a dashboard and auth story baked in along with proper documentation. If that script works for your use case then great, but I don't see how LLMs were a game changer here.
- faangguyindia 6mo agoBig companies would have rolled out their own anyway, but now 2-3 person companies are also not paying for tools like uptime robots. That's the development LLM brought
- ModernMech 6mo agoThose are some famous last words if I’ve ever heard them.