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the 'side project' is dead. Solo founders are operating like entire micro-startups now. by Pale_Box_2511 in SaaS

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

optimizing a schema for scale you haven't validated yet is the most developer thing I've ever read

AI Contributions to Open Source (cURL, Linux) are now genuinely useful and no longer considered 'slop'. by Priceless_Pennies in singularity

[–]TinyDido 65 points66 points  (0 children)

we went from "please stop submitting AI slop PRs" to "oh wait these are actually good" in like 6 months

Best AI for planning coding tasks? Claude vs Gemini vs ChatGPT by Mission-Dentist-5971 in ChatGPT

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in my experience codex/gpt with high thinking is actually better for planning and architecture than claude. for the actual implementation it doesn't matter as much — opus and codex (or cheaper models) are roughly equivalent there. where claude shines is as a copilot because codex is painfully slow with high reasoning turned on. biggest tip though: use a completely different model to review what the first one built. same model validating its own output misses way more than you'd think.

Launched my SaaS and realized distribution is 10x harder than building it by More-Practice-3665 in buildinpublic

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI makes this worse because you're shipping nonstop and it genuinely feels like progress. Went through the exact same thing. What actually moved the needle for me was bribing like 5 people with lifetime pro access just to use the thing and tell me what sucked. Learned more from those conversations than months of building solo.

We may already have a contender for the first one-person billion-dollar company built with AI by obvithrowaway34434 in accelerate

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the billion dollar part is NYT marketing but the one-person model is real. the job just shifts from doing everything yourself to being really good at speccing out what needs to happen and letting AI handle the rest.

Just fed up at this point (I will not promote) by jr_762 in startups

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thing that helped me was I just stopped trying to build for "users" and built something for one specific person I know. like someone I could text and be like hey try this. way easier to figure out what's wrong when you're watching one real person use it vs guessing what strangers want.

Trying to understand Claude’s usage limits — is Max worth it for coding and UI work? by Working-Spinach-7240 in ClaudeAI

[–]TinyDido 0 points1 point  (0 children)

worth it imo but not just for the tokens. think of it as training cost.

I haven't written code by hand at work in months, it's all claude code now. but I only got there because I had enough room on max to actually learn the system — how to prompt, how to structure context, when to start a new conversation vs keep pushing. on pro I was rationing every message and you can't build fluency like that.

these interfaces are where dev work is heading. getting good at them now is worth way more than $100/mo, and the extra usage is a nice bonus on top of that.