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by rckclmbr 120 days ago
Exactly. I was building an app to track bike part usage. It was an okay app, but then I just started using ai with the database directly. Much more flexible, and I can get anything I need right then. AI will kill a lot of companies, but it won’t be the software it develops, it will be the agent itself
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adrianwaj 120 days ago
Do you run the app locally?

If it's not local, I saw this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085906

"This entire stack could give you computing power equivalent to a 25k euro/month AWS bill for the cost of electricity (same electricity cost as running a few fridges 24/7) plus about 50k euros one-time to set it up (about 4 Mac Studios). And yes, it's redundant, scalable, and even faster (in terms of per-request latency) than standard AWS/GCP cloud bloat. Not only is it cheaper and you own everything, but your app will work faster because all services are local (DB, Redis cache, SSD, etc.) without any VM overhead, shared cores, or noisy neighbours."

Makes me think there will be these prompts like "convert this app to suit a new stack for my hardware for locally-optimized runtime."

How are people building the best local stacks? Will save people a ton of money if done well.

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fud101 120 days ago
Yep, we'll evolve patterns which facilitate system to system interaction better than the ones we had built for human in the loop by humans. That's inevitable. CRUD apps with a frontend will be considered legacy etc. They'll be replaced by more efficient means we haven't even considered. We live in an exciting time.
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geraneum 118 days ago
> we'll evolve patterns which facilitate system to system

We have! It has different names, shapes and forms. For example WiFi. Last I checked, it’s not designed for human in the loop and you need multiple levels of decoding for a human to make sense of it.

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adrianwaj 120 days ago
That could be AI 2.0 vs AI 1.0 like what we're in now?

Better and cheaper hardware too. Maybe it'll be DeAI? (decentralized)

Will combine with Crypto 2.0 - whatever that may be.

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fud101 120 days ago
The only real downside is we will collapse society but that's a small price to pay for progress.
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girvo 120 days ago
Think of the shareholder value we made!
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adrianwaj 118 days ago
Speaking of AI taking over the world, have you seen how many projects on ShowHN are using GitHub? Do you think that's by accident or is it trying to normalize a place for an AI to lurk about like a crocodile hanging around a river outlet?
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