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I am a founder of a software company so I am not a traditional software dev anymore. However, we are doubling down on AI and improving tons of internal and customer facing solutions with AI. This will impact some people for sure.

Anyone who is just an order taker or bills by the hour or keeps people waiting too long is going to be eliminated by AI. That is the brutal and honest truth. Companies have always wanted to move fast and now AI removes the dependency on humans to a great extent. I personally have started coding again with AI to move things faster at our company. Not in everything but for anything new/experiements/product dev work.

Tthere are tons of opportunities for senior devs to adjust and use AI to make them more valuable. If you work a regular corporate 9-5, your options may be limited unless you have a say. But if you work for yourself or smaller companies, get on the AI bandwagon if you want to keep you job and excel further. For example, one of my close friends is very senior level at a company and she is now vibe coding in house tools and working with her management team to show the ROI. She otherwise manages a team of over 1000+ people across global locations.

Remember, if you can't beat them, join them. Good luck.

Few things:

- Your website confused me and I had no idea who you are. You may want to add a menu or "About Me" page etc at the minimum.

- Design jobs are becoming more rare because of AI (in my opinion as a founder myself). I want to move fast and I can prototype with tools like v0 or claude etc. May be I am not the right fit for what you do but most founders may not be looking for a "designer" anymore. This is something you have to think about.

I think that no one is going to hire only "designers" or even "frontend" devs. Now you need to be fullstack and own the end to end AND move fast with AI tools. I say this as a founder who recently ended a frontend role for someone who wanted to only work async on "tasks" based on requirements and that is not needed anymore. I just talk to my AI tool now and get things done for the most part especially for prototyping/brainstorming ideas.

If you want to move extremely fast in development/programming, you are right that you are better off with a good senior with Max Plan. But running a company/startup is not just about writing code. So the question is not about junior vs senior but about what type of humans you want to hire to help grow the startup. Start there.

No. Because that won't do anything and we will have yet another stupid law on the books. How far will go anyway ? What about banning Smart Glasses ? What about cameras that are installed everywhere ?

As far as privacy is concerned, that ship has sailed. When you are out in public, you should assume that someone/something is always recording you. You cannot beat them all. A fact of modern life in 2026. I don't necessarily like it but thats the way it is.

Your pricing page calculator is a bit strange. The minimum daily is set to 1 TB which is too high. Are you not interested in working with companies that have lesser ingestion ?

It was a tongue in cheek comment. No one can win the surveillance battle with today's tech. I have given up on that a while ago but I do try to protect whatever I can.

I recently sold my Lincoln Navigator and bought a used 2005 Honda Odyssey (single owner before me, 115K miles and well taken care of). Good luck trying to spy on me. It doesnt even have bluetooth let alone all the other smarttech crap. Good old CD player and Radio.

For me, so far AI has been a net positive. It gave me back control of my small company in a way that I really needed to continue. I am going to continue to implement AI across our company to make things more efficient but with the right guardrails. As a previous programmer who was average at best, AI has given me wings. I don't care what others think but it is helping me take my company forward.

10x code is mostly overrated. The first goal of any code is to solve a problem for the customer/business and solve it fast enough. The second goal is to make it efficient/repeatable etc as needed. But if you never meet the first goal, the 2nd goal is moot. So, based on how real world works, Bob is going to be a lot more valuable to any company unless you are building something that is very core to the machine (like an OS etc). Then, may be Bill.

No. AI is killing the average/mediocre/order taker roles whether frontend or backend or full stack. Nt because it is necessarily better than the mediocre ones but because it is 100x cheaper. Can't beat that. My honest answer.

Happy for Tailwind as this was possible the best outcomes possible for them at this stage. It is clear that most of the frameworks for software are going to struggle significantly because of AI. Especially CSS frameworks. No one cared about writing CSS code by hand before AI and now with AI, no one needs to care about frameworks as well. AI writes it for you so I don't care whether its tailwind or plain css.

This takes me back to early 2000s when HTML forms were submitted using GET request. Fun times.

I honestly feel that we living in twilight zone in the United States.

I like Keycloak a lot but didn't select them because I cannot use my own frontend framework.

I am going to be that guy.

8/10 times, you don't need these 3rd party providers. Yes, someone is going to tell me all about the SSOs, SCIMs, Audit Logs etc etc but the point is that 8/10 applications are simple enough to build their own Auth. The rest, go for these services. I never understood the appeal of these 3rd party providers who can hold you hostage just for your users to login ? In 2026 ? I don't get it. May be I am dumb.

I don't care what my level is. I fire it up, try to prompt what I need to and get things done. If it doesn't do what I want, I update my prompt accordingly.

Exactly. I was talking more about readability.

"The worst part is that AI is covering up their deficiencies. They don’t know what skills they lack. They don’t even know what skills are required because they haven’t put the effort in."

This is the biggest issue with AI. It is incredible when in the right hands (Senior devs who know good fundamentals and know how to code) but really bad when in wrong hands (Juniors with no fundamentals but they are made to believe that they know what they are doing).

Do it. It is just a beautiful language to write and much simpler to pickup than many others. I am a fan boy of course but I love Go.

These types of articles needed to be written because we have gone way too much in the other direction. The issue is that people use too many tools prematurely when they are not needed at their stage. So yea, in most cases, you are probably better off just with Postgres. I m a culprit of this myself so I wouldn't say that I know better. It is just too tempting to setup too many tools to feel cooler or feeling that "we must use elasticsearch as no one does search in db".

I have seen some older Software/SAAS UIs displaying version numbers. But letting you switch may not make sense because usually a change happens both in backend and frontend and switching versions is not something vendors want to offer due to the complexity of switching required.

I looked at your landing page and I cannot understand what it does. What are you licensing exactly ? Is it a license for softsare product (e.g. license key etc) OR is it license as in restricting how many users can access the product etc ?

I think you need to be very clear on what problem are you solving exactly and for whom ? May be I am not your target audience but I have no clue what you offer from your landing page.

Thank you for sharing. I will take a look.

Is there an easy way to block any requests originating from VPS etc instead of residential/commercial IP from legitimate users ? I know cloudflare does a few things but I really want to figure out a way to block any request say at nginx or caddy (reverse proxy) from reaching origin servers if they are not from an IP that is not a VPS etc.

.ai is the new .io but nothing will beat .com. Even Paul Graham has said that.

I don't call that Heathcare. It call that Heath"Scam" run by Big Pharma and Insurance Mafia.

"trying for eight years". "I tried to build tens of apps". "I started getting other ideas again"

I am running a bootstrapped SAAS for 11+ years. Since you asked for honest feedback, I will lay it on you straight. The fact is that most people who try what you have tried give up after few weeks or months on one project and then move on to another. That is not critical mass or time to build anything real. Most influencers/indie hackers peddling multiple products at same time or micro-saas or whatever are either inflating their numbers or outright lying.

Let me be very clear. It is very difficult to do multiple things at once. It is almost impossible to make money from multiple things at once especially if they are not already established and you are starting from scratch.

So the 1st question you have to ask yourself is: How bad do I want to do my own things and what is my goal exactly ? The only way possible to focus on 1 thing at least for 12-18 months minimum (ideally 2+ years) before you see anything real to even move the needle a little bit.

So again, ask tyourself: what can you work on for next 12-18 months without worrying about short term or overnight success ? If you cannot answer that, you don't have anything to try yet.

Agreed. That's one thing I realized I cannot do myself. I bought an expensive Mower Rider and tried it myself only realizing how much work it is for do trimming, blow, cleanup, weeding etc other than just mowing. Granted, I have a large property. I hired back a landscaper and focus my time on other things :)

It is all about the ROI. A lawn cut from a professional can cost anywhere from $25-$100 on an average (per cut). So with a $1000 lawn mower, you will get the return back in 10-40 cuts at most. That is less than 1-2 seasons. Sure, there will be some maintenance cost over the years but if you look at a 5-10 year period, it is totally worth doing your own. Even with the $1000 price tag. Of course, you cannot count the labor time.

You never know the future but imagine the people who were bearish on personal computers when it wasn't a thing yet but was being discussed. Imagine Email, Internet etc etc. Now they are commodities. I am sure one day AI Robots will be a commodity that we could buy for $1000. May be 10 years from now. But it is coming.