Dan Luu: projects he'd have estimated at a year-plus took a low single-digit number of hours with agents. Developers still carry a pre-agent cost model.
What would you build if it took an afternoon? 💭
danluu.com/ambitious/
- $5 now runs an API. Light Cloud Lite used to be "frontends only". Now: 5 apps of any kind, unlimited sites, a shared Postgres, your own domain. What would you put on it first?
- Forgot something in a commit three commits ago? git commit --fixup=<sha> git rebase -i --autosquash <sha>~ The fix folds into the right commit. History reads like you got it right first time.
- Root causes, blamed vs actual: The network: blamed 40%, actually 5% The database: blamed 30%, actually 15% The new deploy: blamed 25%, actually 30% DNS: blamed 5%, actually 50% (Numbers made up. The DNS part isn't.)
- Shopify is moving its mobile apps off React Native, arguing coding agents removed most of the cost of building features twice. The Shop app went native in 12 weeks; the 300+ screen Shopify app is next. Is cross-platform still worth it? shopify.engineering/back-to-native
