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I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
submitted 1 week ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes

No, you didn't.

  • The service you pay for polls the APIs of these services and dynamically fetches the linkedin shout outs or w/e, then displays them.

  • You had AI scrape your linkedin, convert to JSON, then convert again to static HTML, which you manually do and deploy.

It's a fun project and It's awesome to build stuff yourself, but pretending like these things are the same is disingenuous. The irony here is the service you replaced is trivial to build and have AI build, but it would have taken you a lot longer.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

build stuff yourself