So yes, LLM have positive impacts in many business domains, but seeing people happy and enpowered with their home-made little apps, I think it's the best.
So yes, LLM have positive impacts in many business domains, but seeing people happy and enpowered with their home-made little apps, I think it's the best.
It used to be that someone wanted unfettered Internet access, and they were disgruntled with the company's firewall or proxy policy, and so they brought in a modem, and hooked it up to their desktop PC, and started dialing out on some analog line that the company didn't even know they had. Then it's all fine for 3 years until some malware gets discovered, and then IT discovers who-all had unauthorized lines that weren't being scanned or filtered at the company firewall. Same thing happens with WiFi APs today, of course.
I was working for a company that really offered no in-house software or tools to run. But my new supervisor was asking me to closely track my time. So I signed up for some SaaS that would let me log activities and track my timeslices, so I could show a graph or table later on and see what I was doing. I used it for a few weeks. It was real effective. But what I realized down the line, was that all the notes I was typing into this 3rd-party SaaS, were revealing company confidential information. And ultimately, I felt very uncomfortable about revealing what I was doing, on an unannounced and private project, and without authorization or even notifying my employer's IT department. So I shut it all down, and I had to do it with pen and paper, but that felt secure enough.
So if people are going to feel empowered by vibe coding their own bespoke apps, I hope their IT department comes down like a ton of bricks, and tells them to knock it off. Because it is not worth the tech debt, support costs, and ultimately the massive security problems and infoleaks. If your employer won't give you what you need in these terms, then maybe it's just not important to them in the first place.
If the original company has distribution, they can likely catch up, but the gap we see between AI-first companies and the companies not utilizing AI will broaden exponentially in the coming years.
Its crazy how badly run many orgs are. Truly.
> We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity.
-Warren Buffet
It may be a success or maybe not who knows but she did it. I think she has 4 or 5 paying customers.
aaaand let me guess? have they assessed whether this tool needs backups? monitoring? resilience? patching? obviously in 5 years time the author would have left leaving NO documentation on a mission critical 'small' app - likely hosted with a shit ton of other mission critical crap
It's MS Access all over again, my future rates are looking good
seriously it's like going back to the 90's
Or, hear me out, it's not actually "mission critical" and none of this stuff matters. They made their job easier in a small way, good for them.
> It's MS Access all over again
In that it's a convenient tool that a lot of people find useful?
Does that software directly utilize ai?