| I started a company with a combination of no-code tools and LLMs to help me program some of the rest. I’ve got a degree in CS, but haven’t programmed professionally in 15 years. These new tools have allowed me to create something even larger teams would struggle with on my own in a matter of months. I’m astonished at the progress I’m able to make without much assistance. There is often something I’ll need to sit and debug or figure out the name for if I want to ask Google or the LLM helping me code, but that’s about it. As far as I’m concerned, that means I haven’t needed to hire at least 2-3 full time engineers, be fully bootstrapped, and profitable from day 1 at launch. Maybe I’ll hire people in the future, but so far the LLMs have replaced engineers, copywriters, designers, and customer support roles. I can handle it all on my own or have the LLM (in the case of customer support) do a decent enough job that I don’t even have to do it anymore. |