Software is oversold aka no one is vibe coding their payroll, notes:
- Coding agents are a tremendous tool for extending the ambition of a company / product / business unit - why would you use your precious time rewriting SAAS?
- The math doesn’t work - typically no more than
lovely + dense convo w @lennysan re: "what if it works":
- decentralization + everything is working: this product cycle has more winners and more ways to win, yet many in SV are oddly nursing a dark fantasy about being outside the lightcone
- climbing the ambition ladder:
The "permanent underclass" is a dark fantasy Silicon Valley keeps telling itself.
@illscience (GP at @a16z) points out that by almost every measure, things have never been better, and the job-loss story hasn’t played out as people thought. Radiologists have been “cooked” for 20
Think of what's happening here - Astra is using a very complicated piece of software, writing music, dialing in effects and using samples in a dope and tasteful manner.
What gets me isn’t just that it can use the software. It’s the musical choices.
This model is something
