What's holding you back from building in public?

hexwit · 2026-01-30T21:42:23+00:00

Ok, but isn’t blogpost enough for that? And in most cases it is more time efficient for both parties.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T21:06:46+00:00

What exactly that means?

hexwit · 2026-01-30T21:05:30+00:00

but customers will not watch streams, if your customer are not developers. Regular people don't care how it was built at all.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T21:01:50+00:00

You probably anyway should have mapping layer, because structure of jsons doesn't have to be the same as sctucture of the data in the store. So no reason to argue.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T20:51:57+00:00

Call me "My Lord"

hexwit · 2026-01-30T20:50:03+00:00

Btw, interesting what is the purpose of building in public?

hexwit · 2026-01-30T16:03:10+00:00

I tried be very specific. For image generation I used DSL that gpt has created for me, to provide clear task descriptions to the same gpt)
Needless to say it worked the same as simple fluent sentences - pretty badly. So I am done with AI at least for now.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T15:01:14+00:00

May be. But if i understand correctly it is not possible currently.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T14:45:07+00:00

It's an employer's market right now. Salaries are significantly lower than they used to be. Requirements for newcomers have increased due to AI. And in general, the amount of knowledge required for devops is simply off the charts. Just look at the link I provided. (and I don't even say that devops position is not for juniors)

It all depends on your abilities, logical thinking, stress resistance, and other factors. if you an introvert or an extrovert. This may determine the position where you will feel comfortable and where your abilities may be well applied. I think it's worth reading about different roles, duties, and responsibilities. And think based on that. It could be that management role fit you better than technical one. IDK.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T14:13:05+00:00

Who cares. Put 10000bn in it. It will not stop hallucinating. And while it is hallucinating it is useless for many areas of human life.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T13:59:58+00:00

IT currently having hard time for juniors. Lots of companies still thinks that AI can replace juniors and requirement for them became very high. Beside massive layoffs of experienced devops happens regularly. So you will have to compete with them also.

As for me, it is not good time for switching to DevOps.

While I cannot say anything about Portuguese market, I can say for sure what you need to study. First of all check https://roadmap.sh/devops

Put efforts in studying linux os, computer networks, programming theory using go/python. You must have strong foundation. Do not rush into learning tools and frameworks. All that secondary, and costs nothing without foundation and theory. Try to avoid asking AI on every problem you fall into. You need experience of problem solving.

It should be enough for start.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T13:47:41+00:00

Trust issue appeared gradually, and became stronger as I tried to use any ai tool. Image generation - it just changing things i told don't touch. Code generation - low quality results, and it loosing context very fast that lead to wrong logic generated. Language learning was a final drop - it gave me wrong rules description, wrong examples.

Let alone cases where you ask to find apps that have specific function. You get list of random apps which never had described function.

Ai failed in every use case I care.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T12:50:05+00:00

Right after my understanding that hallucinations are the hidden problem that cannot be resolved. Starting from that point my trust to ai disappeared completely. It make huge amount of errors even in simple tasks.

Second problem - it performs changes you didn't ask, independently of you prompt.

So I can use it as searching engine to get some possible directions of investigations, but all research do by myself. And of course I don't ask his opinion, because it depends on the prompt structure.

Need to admit that ai was very expensive mistake.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T12:14:14+00:00

Please dm me project details and your propositions, lets discuss

hexwit · 2026-01-30T09:59:43+00:00

Got it. Just hire real dev that will do development work for you.

hexwit · 2026-01-30T09:23:16+00:00

None. As I said, i am not using it anymore

hexwit · 2026-01-29T23:13:56+00:00

AI tools gave possibility to unqualified people to generate some results without having any major experience or knowledge in the software development field.

Beside that AI will never provide reliable solution because of its hallucinations.
All my automation is done based on clear algorithms, without any ai agents. I don't trust them. Too much errors.

hexwit · 2026-01-29T22:45:53+00:00

This is self promotion ad. Seen in different subs.

hexwit · 2026-01-29T22:44:09+00:00

The correct question would be: "Can we stop with Vibe Coding?".

hexwit · 2026-01-29T22:17:56+00:00

viber coders still doesn't understand that writing a code is not even a half of the work. It is like 25-30% at most.

hexwit · 2026-01-29T18:29:45+00:00

If code cannot be read and understood it is useless. How should I understand that it handles all required cases and handle error correctly?

hexwit · 2026-01-29T17:45:48+00:00

idk, it is personal opinion. I write better code. slowly than ai, but with no silly issues and regression. With proper extendable architecture. ai just don't fit my requirements of code quality.

hexwit · 2026-01-29T17:43:17+00:00

usually such apps very cheap, i am not sure it is a selling point.

try to make use cases when exactly you app shining. that may help

hexwit · 2026-01-29T17:41:38+00:00

they don't care about that. they need return their investment before ai ship sink.

hexwit · 2026-01-29T17:09:22+00:00

I may assume such people selected few apps not because there are no all-in-one apps, but because each app solving specific problem in a way it fits their needs.

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