Complex-Lettuce7164

Aside from paying off your mortgage what would you do with £70,000?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Complex-Lettuce7164@reddit

How many LoC? With opus 4.7 1M max and careful prompting along with correct use of agents and .md files there isn’t really anything out of its grasp assuming it’s documented properly.

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Complex-Lettuce7164@reddit

Somebody meaning one person, not a traditional multi person team. I specialise in low level programming languages and have little to no experience in web development, and I’ve Claude coded my way to averaging 15k p/m (over the past 3) on a little SaaS side hustle, hopefully massively more when I open support for the US and Canada. I am a single person running that company and I dedicate maybe 6-8 hours a week on it. The entire front end and back end took 15-20 hours total of complete vibe coding, with the entire thing hardened using the very agents that programmed the entire solution. Being a programmer is not a feasible occupation anymore unless you are HIGHLY skilled in niche applications such as malware, game hacks, and financial, including all systems which require utmost precision and care. My entire point is that a 20 something like myself can build something in a couple afternoons that has the potential to print money. Why would I bother hiring anyone when I can do all that on my own with a £180 Claude max subscription?

What am I missing with AI hype?

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Complex-Lettuce7164@reddit

You’re missing agents. Agentic workflows are actually really really powerful. If you know how to design an agent harness, they can literally do 80% of office jobs, especially with something like openclaw.

Why I’m ignoring the "Death of the Programmer" hype

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Complex-Lettuce7164@reddit

You can make a bubble bet via the stock market! It’s called shorting. You borrow some stock, sell it immediately, and then buy the same quantity back when the price is lower and give it to the broker, the difference between what you took the position out for and what you pay for the stock is your profit. A 10x leveraged short on companies like nvidia will genuinely create generational wealth when the market inevitably collapses. Bet against me by longing, just buy stock and assume the growth will continue. That can be our bet.

Why I’m ignoring the "Death of the Programmer" hype

Posted by Greedy_Principle5345@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 270 comments

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And you’re left wing and don’t understand the simple economic reason why it’s a blatant bubble. Moving money around companies and ‘promising’ to pay doesn’t generate capital like you think it should