this is unironically the right way to build a startup

My wife is a tech recruiter for software engineers She doesn’t know what Claude is She has never heard of Anthropic We might be in a bubble

What was your first impression when you played Descent by Parallax Software? Descent (1995) was an incredible game for its time, introducing a world-first feature: six degrees of freedom. No other game before allowed such complete movement control, though it came at a cost - at least for me - inducing vertigo if you were prone to it. I'm only half-joking but playing Descent those first couple of times was both amazing and genuinely nauseating. Flying through mineshafts, turning left/right, up/down, and doing full 360-degree rolls was all part of the charm, but the side effects were very real. People often talk about Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal when discussing 90s shooters, yet one game that introduced a truly novel concept is often overlooked among the classics. Remember, this was 1995 - nothing like it had been done before - and it came from an unknown developer (Parallax Software's first game), which makes it even more impressive.

Turns out with claude code, my decades long strategy of NOT deeply learning: - regexs - sql - nginx confs - elaborate shell commands - advanced shell scripting - any javascript framework - perf optimization - webpack, cdns, bundlers - 1000 other things ...was entirely correct.

"If you are someone who is just starting a career, then AI is coming at multiple points. It will make people highly productive, but also will eliminate a large number of jobs." Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic

just talked with two software engineers at a large bank never heard of cursor or claude code we are in a bubble

I work in a 1,600-person company where we did replace an expensive SaaS product with an internally created piece of software built by a senior engineer using AI. So this is happening. In our case, the software wasn’t just equivalent, but better for our needs. It eliminated features we didn’t need in the original, and added features specific to our use cases that the original didn’t have. We were also able to tightly integrate with our company operating system (think ERP ). Accordingly, I do think the SaaSpocalypse will happen. Jensen’s comments to me are wrong. Would an AI build a hammer if a hammer already existed? Absolutely it would, if the new hammer were more effective and efficient at hammering the specific types of nails the AI was using into the specific types of materials it was using. Most SaaS products aren’t a good fit for companies out of the box but must be configured. But now those companies can just create perfect bespoke software instead of configuring imperfect mass market software. This said, I do still think there will be a need for cloud services to serve all this bespoke software. Things like databases that are a single source of truth will be critical. So parts of the stack aren’t going away. We’ll still need places to safely and securely store and manage data. So it strikes me that a good pivot for software companies is to focus on data and APIs and documentation for AI to build with them. Those are raw materials that AI can use to create bespoke software, like buying wood and iron to build a custom hammer.

SaaS is dead. Just vibe code that app.

If AI can build any software awesomely in a few years what are VCs gonna invest in aside from hardware 🤨