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It’s definitely the best version. I’m seeing so many amazing open source projects since people who once had the vision, but not the coding chops, can now build what they imagine. I myself am building a personal OS that connects to everything and it’s way more fun to build things and use them yourself vs just paying for some other software. Especially when that software can be enshittified or start to squeeze its users like you mentioned.

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I'm also seeing people who previously had little interest in coding or understanding systems suddenly become empowered to pump out and deploy unmaintainable trash faster than their peers can resolve the problems they generate.

Suit yourself. Always diamonds in the rough and you can check repos I star on Github.

I built software to manage my own e-commerce business before AI coding existed but see teenagers I mentor vibe code applications that are actually helping them make money. They are 5-7 years ahead of where I was at their age and I started the e-commerce business in college.

And these people are making software for themselves and opensourcing it. So what are you on about peers resolving problems?

One effect doesn't exclude the other. I'm talking about people creating more problems than they are solving because they lack a fundamental understanding of how their systems, and the generated code that acts upon them, actually work. They're enamored with the ease and alacrity with which they can generate code but unwittingly leave a host of issues to be cleaned up. It's usually other people who discover the problems because these suddenly productive "authors" didn't have the know-how and awareness to create exacting enough prompts or sufficiently iterate on the generated output.

It's a phenomenon I've observed which doesn't necessarily take away from the benefits you've found. But maybe it's worth some consideration that this shift in empowerment isn't without negative consequences.

Have you built something you actually use? The feedback loop is immediate. You tell Claude and it goes it and fixes it.

You realize mostly proprietary software is made by people that haven’t even worked in that niche? Now people in that niche with these immediate loop can make software work way better and faster. Without the risk of it getting worse over time or selling out it a PE firm like Bending Spoons.

So long as the token price stays low, because if it doesnt you will need the PE firm to pay for your tokens.

Not if you reach for something open-source and use that as the starting point. Most B2B customers are small businesses and once they build bespoke software that works with their business, they won’t need loads of tokens to keep it running.

Can you share any of these many open source projects? I am curious about them.

Sure

fx0

https://github.com/vercel-labs/fx0

It’s by Vercel Labs, but it’s a small team and it’s basically a small website builder and even comes with 5 free prompts. I’m building on it to build a universal storefront

Moss Keeper

https://github.com/ChetasLua/moss-keeper

Someone who got early access to Fable 5.5 asked it to make an anime style video using html and it’s amazing. I might make a short film doing this one day.

Money Shot

https://github.com/SocialAcolyte/monet-shot

A sort of screen studio alternative with a twist

MailCheap

https://github.com/marclou/mailcheap

Opensource alternative to BeeHiv

These are my latest stats on Github: https://github.com/junaid33?tab=stars

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