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by Taek 114 days ago
> Developing and maintaining a completely different mobile operating system?

The cost of writing code has fallen 100x in the past 3 years, and will likely fall 100x further. So actually, yes, thanks to AI it probably actually is reasonable to launch a fully new stack from scratch.
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integralid 114 days ago
>The cost of writing code has fallen 100x in the past 3 years

Maybe, but the cost of actually shipping a product has fallen by maybe 10%. I don't see dozens of production ready mainstream OSes and web browsers popping up because LLM can dump tens of lines of code per second.

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Taek 114 days ago
As a startup founder shipping product, I strongly disagree with that.

Give it 12 months, you will see dozens of from-scratch large scale software projects shipping. New web browsers, new operating systems, new gaming engines, new productivity software, we are at the threshold of having an abundance of software that was previously only available from large corporations.

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poulpy123 113 days ago
Lol
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