[archargelod]

I am genuinely interested to know some details:

1. Is a product/software you develop novel? As in does it do something useful and unique? Or it's a product that already exists in many varietes and yours is just "one of ..."?

2. What if one day, LLMs will get regulated/become terrible/raise prices above your budget. Do you have plans for that?

[Pannoniae]

1. Fairly - I definitely don't see any training material about the stuff I do on the internet:D it's really far from your avg front-end app. And of course you can't let any of those make decisions automatically. Remember the IBM quote, "a computer can not be held accountable therefore a computer must not make any management decisions"... Even on completely greenfield and groundbreaking projects there's lots of throwaway code, scaffolding and so on. You contribute the value-add, you use the flanker to speed up the boring and grey parts.

2. Regulation? I'm sceptical that the cat can be put back into the bag. It's already out there. More realistic problem is the business model part - openweight/local provides a counterpoint to that.

[cultofmetatron]

I'm in a similar situation

1. Even really novel projects have large chunks of glue code and boring infrastructure that the novel bits depend on. claude means I spend 10% of my time on the borng stuff and 90% of time on stuff I previously onky had 10% of my day to work on. In my experience the software picked up our idioms fast and for context, we have a skill file explaining code standards.

2. codex and gemini are comparable when paired with a good harness (pi.dev). if things ever get really bad, I'll drop 8k on a dedicated agent coding server and run it locally. I tried it recently with my current system and it was sub par but I was running a drasticly simpler model.