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points by sbarre 3 days ago | 0 comments
Yep, this. I've seen it coined as "the age of personal software" and I totally agree.

I've built easily a dozen personal apps in the last few months that I have no plans on releasing or sharing, run locally, and solve very specific productivity (or one-off) issues for me.

I would never have spent the time building these apps in the pre-LLM days because the effort wouldn't have been worth the gains.

But now? Sure Claude, build me a MacOS app in Swift that does this exact thing I need. Less than an hour later, it's done.

[–] nekooooo 3 days ago
i mean, i made myself a dvd player for my steam machine. i don't see how that makes anthropic money at real token costs.

when lyft line was heavily subsidized in SF by VC money, i used it almost daily to commute to work because it cost $2.50 each way. Now that it's $20, I don't use it.

[–] AtlasBarfed 3 days ago
Psst.... that's called "dumping".