mikert89

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by mikert89 9mo ago
Right now, amazon is packed full of L6 and L7 software managers, making 450-900k a year, that: 1. dont understand ai 2. have had the same skill set for 10 years 3. are working on autopilot, not trying to get promoted, just collecting payche
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theres math, its mostly about pulling in obscure data sources, rank and file in alot of hedge funds dont even get to see what actually makes money
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by mikert89 9mo ago
I have 15 years of software engineering experience across some top companies. I truly believe that ai will far surpass human beings at coding, and more broadly logic work. We are very close
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honeslty with ai, i bet this works really well and basically removes all backend complexity
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I am patiently awaiting the collapse of traditional saas VC
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What happens when you can pivot with a new fully built product once a month?
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Microsoft is a robust business, with corporate contracts going back 40 years. There are going to be exceptions and winners, and microsoft is probably a winner
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by mikert89 9mo ago
Right now, you can take the raw html and css of a competitors website/saas product, give it to claude code, and it will rewrite your react/nextjs app to match the quality and style of the assets you gave it. You are underestimatin
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I’m well aware of what makes sales difficult—I’ve lived it, both in early-stage, venture-backed environments and in long, enterprise sales cycles. In SaaS, almost everything about how sales works ultimately ties back to the cost of building
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"As customers connect these nonfunctional requirements with a brand, I don't see how big SaaS players will have a problem." Brand means almost nothing when a competitor can price the software at 90% cheaper. Which is what we
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this isnt even true though. because if building software is so cheap, you wont be penalized for building the wrong thing. you just move onto the next
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Really? Because UX Design, Graphic Design, and other "corporate creative" roles are essentially obsolete and these people cannot get hired.
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by mikert89 9mo ago
Yes, the moat is disappearing. Go look at any stock index of publicly traded saas companies, they have all been selling off 50% in the last six months. This is going to be a bloodbath
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When software becomes cheap to build, a lot of strange second-order effects kick in. It’s not just that products are easier to create; sales, marketing, and every other business function can iterate faster alongside them. That speed erodes
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by mikert89 9mo ago
AI just generates all this. The true take is that this argument all together is obsolete, you shouldnt even be writing tailwind by hand anymore
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Basically yeah, a lot of people just keeping the lights on
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Its so much easier to create production quality software
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only on HN do people call what is basically AGI, a vc funded bubble
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claude code can do this, natively without a custom implementation
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you are completely delusional about whats about to happen, hope you have some money saved up
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by mikert89 9mo ago
divulging what? its not far from taking a screenshot and generating a backend. which will probably be possible some time in 2027, and is mostly possible now. the moat on software is gone for people that know how to use the tooling
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we are no where near the limits of models with regards to software
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the time is coming when you can take screenshots of an app and generate a full backend. we are no where near the limits of what we are about to see happen to software. idk whats legal, but its soon an irrelevant question
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eventually you will be able to generate a database schema/api by just feeding saas app html to an llm. you wont get everything, but you will get close
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by mikert89 9mo ago
I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couc
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by mikert89 10mo ago
this is a completely false and outdated take, you can easily sell openai shares
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by mikert89 10mo ago
unfortunately, google is better than ever
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like half of engineers are vibe coding full time in their jobs, wake up
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by mikert89 10mo ago
Software engineering will get automated, all of the issues with the current models will get worked out in time. People can beg and wish that its not true, but it is. We have a few more good years left and then this career is over
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by mikert89 10mo ago
I read it when I was 15/16, along with "beyond good and evil" by nietzsche. I grew up in a religious house hold, and it really brought alot of things into question. Mostly lead to a many year long existential crisis. I also f

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