> The math is simple: if it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. And if cloning is free, subscription pricing dies
Yes and no.
I have created 15 small apps that solves all kinds of things for me. However, at the department I work full of non-technical people, most of them don’t even know lovable exists.
And for the one that does know lovable exists, they tend to build stuff with some botched backend and you’ll get to scaling issues, security issues and who knows what else
For what it's worth: I know it could be me. I'm currently with tens of thousands of dollars in savings (in Europe, not American) but it could still be me. I'm quite afraid of it actually and I live every day so that it won't be me. I've noticed that reduces chances significantly, not to zero, but significantly.
And is capable enough to be (1) wealthy and (2) distribute that wealth so that everyone is wealthy enough. Especially (2) is hard. Norway seems to be the only country having some actual demonstrable skill at it.
When Covid came to Europe, we saw on the news how Italy was hit and what doctors had to do.
Long story short: young people lived, old people died. Because doctors faced the awful decision of whom to put on life support.
In the Covid case there's a genuine moment of lack of resources (good luck training enough doctors to help, even in a utopia it wouldn't be possible). Unfortunately, since many countries are bad at distributing their own resources enough such that no one is poor, we're basically in a Covid-like situation when it comes to homeless people.
And I'm saying this as a Dutch person. As I have one family member who didn't eat for 2 weeks, fainted, got found, etc. Granted, this person doesn't want to deal with bureaucracy and is quite stubborn, among other things. But still, even in a country that has "socialism" this stuff happens. And we're not as socialistic as one might think: Polish people that come here to perform labor do so in quite awful circumstances, to the point that when they lose a finger or a thumb they get reimbursed like 300 to 500 euro's IIRC. I watched it from some Dutch documentary (probably Nieuwsuur).
Countries are just incredibly bad at resource (re)distribution.
> Currently constructing the Sanctuary of the Silent Star while unpacking a 6-month journey through psychosis, homelessness, and the systems that govern us. One story at a time.
I'm not saying it's his own fault. I'm also not too happy when people point to mental illness. But this is his blog description where he mentions himself that he unpacs a 6-month journey through psychosis.
6 months of psychosis means you're mentally ill with psychosis as a symptom.
It's addictive because of a hypothesis I have about addiction. I have no data to back it up other than knowing a lot of addicted people and I have studied neuroscience, yet I still think there's something to it. It's definitely not fully true though.
Addiction occurs because as humans we bond with people but we also bond with things. It could be an activity, a subject, anything. We get addicted because we're bonded to it. Usually this happens because we're not in fertile grounds to bond with what we need to bond with (usually a good group of friends).
When I look at addicted people a lot of them bond with people that have not so great values (big house, fast cars, designer clothing, etc.), adopt those values themselves and get addicted to drugs. This drugs is usually supplied by the people they bond with. However, they bond with those people in the first place because of being aimless and receiving little guidance in their upbringing.
I'm just saying all that to make it more concrete with what I mean about "good people".
Back to LLMs. A lot of us are bonding with it, even if we still perceive it as an AI. We're bonding with it because when it comes to certain emotional needs, they're not being fulfilled. Enter a computer that will listen endlessly to you and is intellectually smarter than most humans, albeit it makes very very dumb mistakes at times (like ordering +1000 drinks when you ask for a few).
That's where we're at right now.
I've noticed I'm bonded with it.
Oh, and to some who feel this opinion is a bit strong, it is. But consider that we used to joke that "Google is your best friend" when it just came out and long thereafter. I think there's something to this take but it's not fully in the right direction I think.
My secret was vibe coding my own jira type if system. It makes sense to no one, but it feels very intuitive to me. It has features like caching all my google docs shared with me so I can search by title. Ironically, it works better than google drive’s search.
Anyway I did this because our version of jira isn’t great, so all the features I found complicated, I put that in my system. For the rest, I use jira because with other things it’s really intuitive.
I did something similar in Django for an overview of analyzed datasets. It's messy, does not have all the tests and still runs in development mode. But man did I set it up quickly and man does it help me keep an overview/find stuff fast.
Yes and no.
I have created 15 small apps that solves all kinds of things for me. However, at the department I work full of non-technical people, most of them don’t even know lovable exists.
And for the one that does know lovable exists, they tend to build stuff with some botched backend and you’ll get to scaling issues, security issues and who knows what else
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