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by jdright 172 days ago
100% agree with this.

I have years of experience, but I never had the time (or will) to take on some _very minor nuisances_ or different areas of dev far from my day job expertise.

LLMs solved this. I produced about 12 different things that "I needed" to improve aspects of my life.

Each single took between a few hours to 3 days, and most of them I use daily, they are the most used applications (mobile, desktop and web) for my family.

It is a game changer.

Personalized custom software would never really reach critical mass, LLM enabled it, this is the age of personalized software, egosoftware, llmware.
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deaux 172 days ago
> Each single took between a few hours to 3 days, and most of them I use daily, they are the most used applications (mobile, desktop and web) for my family.

How have you done distribution and auth? I'm interested in doing something similar but not sure of the best way to approach that part, especially with the family/multiplatform angle as well.

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jdright 172 days ago
as basic as needed, most of them don't even require this. They are not products and we know their limitations.
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jauntywundrkind 171 days ago
"deployed on TailScale" is going to be quite the hit in this age!

I do think it is a bit scary to imagine software devolving into an unconnected / less connected state. Lots of apps but less protocols, everyone kind of frontiersing their own stuff has enticement and I love the can do itiveness. But I am scared for a major regression, of disconnection.

I do think atproto is an enormously positive hope here. I used to be super thrilled by platform as a service stuff, works like Apache UserGrid that gave a wide range of basic compute platform stuff, accounts, data stores, etc. Letting devs focus on the core competencies, on their value add rather than building boring account systems and what not felt like a huge win back then & expected to see soar.

I think atproto is a very interesting resurgence of something similar-ish, where users have their own Personal Data Stores that your app can read and write records from. And which serves as an auth system for your app! It makes social app building incredibly simple, and there's been so many neat simple apps people have booked up with so much less ceremony than what doing connected stuff used to require. Atproto creating a platform as a service (PaaS) is super cool & may really enable awesome new ways of building.

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