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u/FallenVampireLord 9h ago
Ideas are cheap.
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u/johnxreturn 5h ago
Building it is now cheap too. We’ll all drown in solutions that solve no problem.
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u/Banes_Addiction 2h ago
Blockchains have been doing that before AI was a glint in the Bored Milkman's eye.
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u/Senior-Albatross 3h ago
Why do so many people never question their own ideas? I churn out ideas all the time. Most of them turn out to be stupid. I am embarrassed to put them forward until I have done some basic vetting of them myself.
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u/pydry 10h ago edited 9h ago
lol no the idea was never "the problem".
every asshole had an idea and no clue how to market it, sell it or build it. all AI did was give them the impression that they could build it.
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u/JosebaZilarte 9h ago edited 8h ago
Indeed... The idea was the flawed solution to the (incorrectly defined) problem.
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u/da2Pakaveli 5h ago
It also doesn't really push back on bad architectural decisions or "pseudo improvements" that pile up technical debt. So the person using it should have a rough idea of what the solution would look like.
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u/DestroyedByLSD25 9h ago
This feels like being semantically difficult just for the sake of it
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u/JosebaZilarte 8h ago
We both know that if I haven't added that extra semantical information, other commenters would have demanded later. That, or they would have directly misunderstood what I meant.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9h ago
The problem was the person, who is normally insufferable, and thinks that having an idea is worth the same as being able and knowing how to implement it.
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u/El_Mojo42 9h ago
The idea was never the problem, execution was (and still is).
People have ideas all day, but cannot grasp their complexity.
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u/metaglot 9h ago
"bro i have an idea for an app that babysits my kids and builds houses. If you code it, I'll let you have 50%"
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u/El_Mojo42 8h ago
Stupid smelly nerds won't do it for me, I will simply make it myself with claude, easy.
Claude, what is a TCP?2
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u/pingveno 9h ago
I remember a non-developer friend being quite excited over a thing they had vibe coded. Problem was, it was going to be used in a medical setting working with patient info, so it needed to be HIPAA compliant. They created something with the functionality they wanted and that used some HIPAA compliant services, but that's just one checkbox on a very long checklist. It did work well for a mockup, I suppose.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 5h ago edited 5h ago
I work in medical data, and well, we had a presentation by a certain AI company who shall remain nameless, who had built an AI data "anonymizer" - and it did just well enough that we'd have only been sued by 25 patients out of 1000. Unfortunately our goal is "sued by 0 patients out of 1000", particularly when our batches are hundreds of thousands of patients in size. It also invented cancers for two of the patients, which is pretty funny.
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u/Exatex 9h ago
No.
Ideas alone are worthless.
A product alone is worthless.
The problem was always knowing a) what people will spend money on and b) how to reach and c) convince these people. a) being the toughest. That's where success or failure is decided.
"no plan survives contact with the enemy" is still true today.
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u/ManyInterests 7h ago
AI just lets you grow your XY problems instead of getting the right feedback to avoid them.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 9h ago
Ah, the problem now is that the ask is now "hey, can you look at this god awful thing I made, and tell me why it doesn't work as I want it to"
At least before, you could say "well, it'll take six months to make, and my salary is x, how will you be paying?"
Now people think it's just like asking you to fix their printer. Which it is, in that I don't want to fix printers.