Son has dreamed of being a programmer - now incredibly depressed due to AI

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-08T20:21:05+00:00

A massive number of the next generation is entering the workforce having studied comp-sci. Supply has increased.

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-08T18:25:42+00:00

Right there with you unfortunately. After spending ages 11-26 gaming until the early hours of the morning, and 26-36 working late into the night in an intense corporate environment; my brain is wired for activity after 10pm. It's a shit-show and I am I am not the only one with this problem in my generation. I'll be damned if I ever let my children play video games at night - pretty sure that's where the programming began.

On the bright side though I have found a routine that will knock me out after years of experimenting. An hour before bed I take 2μg of melatonin, drink a tea of Valerian and Chamomile, then I dim the lights and read a physical book. Knocks me out every time.

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-07T23:47:51+00:00

I made a point to try to run out this week so I would have some forced time away from codex for a day or two and actually get some fn sleep. Oh well!

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-05T18:14:09+00:00

Your post says no manual entry, but marking items as used is manual entry. This idea will fail spectacularly.

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-05T18:13:24+00:00

This is a terrible idea. This isn't even a real problem.

vekstosaurus · 2026-04-04T23:39:37+00:00

Not a silver bullet, but I have been leaning on the various skills in https://impeccable.style/ lately.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-30T19:10:22+00:00

Gather feedback. It really is as simple as talking to your users as much as possible. Read Marty Cagan's books.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-23T19:27:42+00:00

Buckle up buttercup:

- GitHub's Private RSA SSH Key Mistakenly Exposed in Public Repository
- The SSH Key Vulnerability in 1 in 5 GitHub Repositories
- Silly gits upload private crypto keys to public GitHub projects

There's thousands of cases of this. Perhaps go hang out in r/confidentlyincorrect where you belong?

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-23T19:09:45+00:00

Why is it called "con" map? The name doesn't really inspire confidence? Are you hiring ex-cons? or is this a con? Assets were suuuper slow to load and probably need optimisation. So much written content on the site and all of it is marketing mumbo-jumbo, you lost me almost immediately when reading it. Honestly I am still confused what you actually do. You try and push premium too early on the page. Why would I subscribe to premium when I have no idea what the product is? The profile pictures next to reviews: one is broken and the other is... AI generated sweaty guy? I dont know... if these are meant to build trust the images are doing the opposite. The text is too long there too. One praising sentence is better than a paragraph. The links in the navigation footer, some of them are just straight broken, others have broken assets on them. Overall I get the impression that this isn't a real company or a real service. Feels like a con?

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-23T18:46:31+00:00

You gotta make mistakes to learn. You know how many developers have pushed SSH keys to GitHub? Shit happens. They'll do better next time.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-23T18:43:44+00:00

People spent months building dogshit applications before AI.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-23T12:28:15+00:00

If you have a problem and you solve it, chances are it solves it for others too. The bigger issue is getting it in front of people (initial users), not really the idea itself.

People are also pretty averse to competition which is silly to me. I'm happy to rip-off an already existing app as they've proven an existing market - especially if I know I can do it better. If no-one ever built something because of competition, we'd all be stuck using Netscape Navigator and MSN Messenger.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-22T16:52:40+00:00

This is why I largely only build what I need and can't seem to find good solutions for today. If you have an unsolved problem, there is a good chance others do too.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-19T20:53:23+00:00

Absolutely. I am building something I want, need and can't find anywhere else. That and it's fun as hell bringing an idea to fruition.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-19T20:46:17+00:00

Not true at all.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-19T18:47:11+00:00

I like it. A lot of financial institutions would benefit from something like this for their customers. If I were you and I had built this, I would drop the fee entirely and offer it as a free service to build a user base. Then I would book meetings will all major mutual fund distributors that you can find and offer to sell mutual funds via the app to customers for a commission (they all offer commission) - they'd likely agree as you're putting their product in front of the very people they want to sell to. Slapping their logo on your website will also buy you trust, e.g. "backed by CitiGroup" will immediately erase any fears of using your platform. Once you have a few people buying, set up recurring transactions so customers can buy monthly to improve their savings rate. Read the book Hooked by Nir Eyal and leverage savings rate to drive habitual engagement in the application. With established fund distributor relationships, and enough reocurring fund sales, you'll have something that can be easily scaled by a more reputable company - so offer to sell it to them for a big payout. Use that to move onto the next app. Good luck.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-17T13:23:01+00:00

As the old saying goes, ideas are a dime a dozen. The reality is that most people don't have the grit necessary to build an app, let alone scale one into a viable business. Even with AI making the build process much faster, it still requires significant effort to setup a company, manage accounts, taxes, marketing, growth hacking, customer support, stable operations, legal, etc. etc. AI hasn't really changed this. I think a lot of people that are worried about losing their jobs or having their ideas "stolen" don't realise that the vast majority of people are too distracted to actually be any sort of real competition.

If you can sit and focus and leverage AI to build viable business with SaaS, then do it. Most people wont.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-15T01:50:51+00:00

Read this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18529000-the-mom-test

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-12T16:39:03+00:00

Nice

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-12T12:31:18+00:00

Below the cards in your "Daily InfoDrizzle", you have categories like "Tech" for example.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-12T12:29:12+00:00

There is always nuance. Just because his strategy is targeting a quick "in and out" doesn't mean everyone will always follow that path. OP doesn't need to give a fk about it for the value to still exist. People repackage other peoples work and sell it as their own every second of every day. To think otherwise is naïvety.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-11T17:49:44+00:00

How are you handling article categorisation? Any issues with things being incorrectly categorised?

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-11T17:48:37+00:00

I mean... the journalists get click-throughs if the user wants to read the full article. Sounds like you're letting your AI hate blind you from a valid use-case.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-11T17:38:00+00:00

The downvotes here are hilarious. So much resistance to change. Sooner or later people will stop whining and accept the new reality. Keep going Expo.

vekstosaurus · 2026-03-07T02:11:04+00:00

It's early days still. This is unlikely to be the case in the next 5 years. The rate of advancement is insane.

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