Nostr Web Client

It’s funny how with vibe coding nobody cares about anyone’s apps anymore.

Before you had to put in the effort - and people valued effort to give an app some attention.

But now you can make a crappy but working version of whatever in a few minutes. Low effort - low interest from people.

Even if the vibed app is more interesting and has neat features, people still don’t care because less effort went into creating it and it’s not as scarce anymore.

Scarce availability- people pay attention

Abundance - no one cares.

Based on this it might be safe to conclude that we’re not likely to see more people on nostr just from more vibe coding.

We can’t forget that the people we think we’d attract here are vibing their own apps, and burning out on their own AI playground.

So what does this all lead to?

I imagine down the road our AI tools will be so powerful but abstracted that you’ll just connect wherever and whenever without even needing to create anything. It’ll just be on demand via whatever medium you choose. Question is: how far away is this? And what happens in between now and then?

BITKARROT 2mo ago 💬 2

First....a lot of the vibe coded stuff will break when everyone is forced to upgrade to React 19, and then 20. 😂 If you vibe React, and don't know how it actually works, you are F'd. Trash will get washed out, like always.

The clear as day difference between actual engineering and posers is that one knows how to scale, architect, and maintain over long periods of time as well as pivot, and those who can't won't, well, they don't. If you don't understand the fundamentals you'll get wiped out anyway just like in every tech boom.

Taste matters as well. A lot of bad taste floating around and fakin' it till you make it even on the UI/UX side will catch up eventually.

AI is great at boilerplate, but boilerplate is not the next billion dollar breakthrough. Humans still have to make the final judgement call on AI output, solve hard problems that haven't been solved yet and develop creative new things, with the assistance of AI.

just my 0.02 cents

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Lady Mae - Growth Teacher 2mo ago

very well said and I couldn't have said it better. Great builders create lasting products that is tested in time. Script kiddies can copy and spin whatever product they like but it does not mean it will last. Sadly I've seen too many of them in my former careers and even to this day 😂😬

HoloKat 2mo ago

I think the age of billion dollar ideas is coming to an end in terms of individuals accomplishing this. We may have a wave of that initially but very quickly that window will shrink and top of the funnel will capture most if not all value. I’m not saying there’s no room for growth in AI, we’re just getting started on a monumental shift, but I do think the major developments will come from a handful of companies.

The react example: whatever breaks will be vibed back in a minute. Eventually there will be an app for everything and no one will use them except maybe the person who made it. Personalized software on demand. But even this will subside when the front end is abstracted away from the function. The input field we use today can be any type of interface of tomorrow, not limited to a rounded corner rectangle with text. I’m probably not explaining this well as I’m out and about - but what I’m trying to say is that the back end will interpret any type of input irrelevant of its intended purpose at some point and this is where UI becomes irrelevant and UX is totally customized to your preferences. I should probably write a long form post to communicate this more clearly.