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Missing the point. I no longer need to buy or rely on someone else for software I want to use. A lot of things I want to do ARE one offs. I can write software and throw it away when I'm done.

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I know this sounds sarcastic but I really mean it: For years everyone has been monastically extolling some variation of "the best code is deleted code". Now, we have a machine that spits out infinite code that we can infinitely delete. It's a blessing that we can have shitty code generated that exposes at light speed how shitty our ideas are and have always been.

A nicer framing is original ideas and original thinking in general is very hard and doesn't come around very often.

Steve Jobs once said a thing about the belief that an idea is 90% of the work is a disease. He is and was absolutely right.

You still need to spend plenty of time verifying they work though unless it’s something where that truly doesn’t matter.

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