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The comment above literally said this took them 20 minutes of prompting. That doesn't sound like much if any value add.

> The comment above literally said this took them 20 minutes of prompting. That doesn't sound like much if any value add.

You can say much the same about most small SaaS products of the last decade - the value-add isn't the 20 minutes of prompting, it's that someone else has already tested and validated the damn thing.

And yes, you won't sell many to engineers, because they'd rather prompt their own in-house version. But you might well sell to other folks


I’m making $1000/month off of an app that was initially a single prompt.

There’s a gold rush right now. You absolutely can turn these ideas into products.


Sounds like something people say to locksmiths.

It's not going to be a particularly expensive product, but a product it can be.

As someone who went down the keyboard only blackhole, I've rebounded all the way to mouse maximization. Mice are nice! Another tip that really helped me is embracing good mouse acceleration (i.e. not the Windows or Mac built in garbage). This tool has honestly made using a mouse at least 3x better for me: https://github.com/RawAccelOfficial/rawaccel

Frankly, this comment does little to avail the parent's point - doing this on the open road was both illegal and reckless. It reflects extremely poorly on your character and the project as a whole.


Once the bureaucracy is automated, there will be no "reasonable" choice.


100%. MSDN is the definition of saying nothing with as many words as possible. I guess if you wanted a case for why LLMs are helpful, MSDN is a good one haha


It is important to note that this is a deal struck for just some ethnic groups of the citizenry. It does not apply fairly across the board to all people under Chinese governments' control so it's not even as good as it sounds for the average Chinese citizen.


I use this all day everyday. Love this, changed how it feels to work with GUIs for me.


I would also be very interested in reading that blog post!


As often the case with Dan's letters, a well balanced take on many issues. I particularly appreciated the thoughts on AI and (what I read) the undertone of infrastructure being the real differentiator between the US effort and China. We'll see how it plays out this year. "May you live in exciting times" etc.


This matches my experience. State management is the key thing - you end up needing to put way more on the backend then you'd otherwise like to. Quick example: something like a multi-step "wizard" is far more difficult to express in HTMX than with any SPA-ish pattern.


Check out DecisionMe.com. 100 percent wizard pattern, htmx based nav and validation.


Eh.. this does not contradict the previous point? Unless we can see the backend code and do some comparison with a reference implementation, it does not disprove "far more difficult to express". "can be done with htmx" != "easy/easier to do with htmx"


True, but it is not my code to that with. so... If I ever open source one of my backends I will try and remember to flag it in a reply here.


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